The Distant Ghost

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The Distant Ghost

The bread had begun to rot, a slow and sweet decay that filled the air of the cellar with a cloying, fungal perfume, thick as the fog that usually rolled off the Thames and settled into the cobblestones of Whitechapel like a wet wool blanket. I stood in the dim, oil-lamp light, holding the loaf in my hands, feeling the cold, dampness of the mold seep through the parchment paper and into the...

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