The Faded Apartment
The boiler in the basement of the St. Jude’s Orphanage died on a Tuesday, at a precise and unforgiving hour, when the mercury in the mercury thermometer was already dropping toward the brittle zero that would shatter the glass if you were not careful enough to wrap it in wool. You stood in the freezing corridor, your breath pluming in the stagnant air, listening to the sudden, deafening silence...
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