The Faded Photograph
The hall smelled of wet wool, stale beer, and the metallic tang of fear, a scent that had become so ingrained in my nostrils during my years as a patrol officer in the iron-and-brick district that I no longer registered it as an odor, only as a physical weight pressing against my eardrums. It was the annual gala of the Municipal Watchmen’s Benevolent Society, a grotesque masquerade of...
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