The Wistful Incense

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The fire did not begin with a spark, but with a failure of protocol, a sudden and violent rupture in the architecture of the institution that consumed the night. In the high, vaulted halls of the St. Jude’s Penitentiary for the Aged and Infirm, where the air was always thick with the scent of boiled starch and decaying flesh, the alarms did not scream; they hummed, a low, subsonic vibration...

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