The Distant Joke
The rain fell on the slate roof of the Whitmore house with a persistence that felt less like weather and more like a judgment. It was a heavy, grey silence, the kind that settles in the bones before it settles in the air. Arthur Whitmore stood before the mirror in the hallway, his reflection staring back at him with a stillness that terrified him. He was a man of precise measurements and sharp...
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