The Pale Banner
The smoke came in first, thick and grey, smelling of burnt sugar and old paper. It seeped under the door of the kitchen, then the parlor, then the study where you sat. You were not a soldier. You were a clerk at the County Magistrate’s office, a man of forty-two years who smelled of ink and cold tea. But you had served in the war, and your body remembered what your mind had tried to forget. It...
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