The Faded Attic

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The Faded Attic

The rain had not stopped for three days. It drummed a relentless, hollow rhythm against the slate roof of the St. Jude’s Orphanage. Inside the laundry room, the air was thick with the scent of lye and wet wool. Margaret stood before the great brass boiler. Her hands were raw. The heat seeped into her bones. She was thirty years old. She looked older. The steam rose in curling ghosts. They...

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