The Golden Mirror
The bottle of morphine sat on the nightstand like a small, glass-encased secret, its amber liquid catching the grey light of the London morning with a deceptive warmth, a heat that promised relief rather than the cold, mechanical truth of its chemical composition. Arthur Penhaligon, a man whose life had been defined by the precise, unyielding architecture of the municipal ledger, watched the...
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