The Wistful Asylum

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The mortar had dried into a chalky, irreducible dust that clung to the creases of Elias Thorne’s palms, a fine, white powder that seemed to possess a gravity of its own, settling into the whorls of his fingerprints and the deep lines of his age, marking him not as a man but as a vessel for the slow, grinding decay of the institution he had served for forty years. He stood in the center of the...

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