The Golden Suspect
The ink on your fingers is black and permanent. It stains the creases of your knuckles, the beds of your nails, the fine lines of your palm. You wash it with lye. You scrub until your skin turns raw and red, but the dark remains. It is part of you now. You are the scribe. You are the stain. You sit in the basement of the St. Jude’s Archive. The air is cold and smells of decay. Dust motes dance...
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