The Faded Photograph

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The banquet hall of the Oakhaven Police Station smelled of stale beer and damp wool. I stood by the wall, my hand resting on the cold brass of my service revolver, watching my brother, Sergeant Elias Hale, laugh with the men. It was a loud, jagged sound, the kind that had driven our mother to her grave and our father to his early grave before that. I was thirty-two, a constable of modest rank...

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