The Distant Summer
The bell tower of St. Jude’s, which had stood as a silent sentinel over the valley of Elmsbury for three centuries, did not fall in a single, catastrophic crash, but rather in a slow, agonizing surrender to the weight of its own rot, a dissolution that began not with the wood but with the stone, where the mortar, weakened by decades of unrelenting rain and the creeping, invisible hunger of...
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