The Faded Guest

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The Faded Guest

The ink on the ledger was not black, but a deep, arterial red that seemed to pulse in the dim gaslight of the archive. I sat alone in the basement of the Whitmore Foundry, the air thick with the scent of ozone and dried blood, my fingers stained to the second knuckle. We were close to the end of the shift, the iron workers above us having long since gone home to their wives and their quiet,...

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