The Distant Joke
The rain had been falling for three days, a persistent, gray curtain that turned the world into a watercolor smear of mud and slate, and as I stood on the porch of the manor house, watching my sister’s carriage disappear into the mist, I felt a sudden, sharp emptiness in my chest, a hollowing out that seemed to expand until it filled my entire ribcage. Margaret had left me with a smile that did...
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