The Wistful Incense

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The dream was not of fire, as the neighbors said it must be, but of a hand. A large, calloused hand, pressing a cold, iron spoon against the back of Marcus Thorne’s tongue. It was a sensation of pure, metallic rejection, a taste of rust and old blood that lingered long after he woke in the narrow, drafty room of his boarding house in Manchester. The year was 1954, and the city smelled of coal...

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