The Distant Threshold
The fire started in the basement of the old textile mill, a low orange glow that bled through the cracks in the concrete floor. You saw it before the alarm sounded. You saw the heat shimmering, bending the air like a lie told by a dying man. The smoke did not smell like wood or gasoline. It smelled of copper. It smelled of old blood. It smelled of the iron-rich earth where your grandmother had...
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