The Faded Portrait
The ink on the parchment did not dry; it bled. It was a slow, viscous oozing, a dark weeping that defied the dry, brittle air of the attic. Elias Thorne sat before the open trunk, his fingers stained black up to the second knuckle, watching the words rearrange themselves on the page. He was a man of fifty, with a face like crumpled parchment himself, and he had spent the last decade in the town...
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