The Wistful Petal

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The Wistful Petal

The envelope in your hand is heavy, heavier than paper and ink should be, and the rejection letter inside is the third you have received this semester. You are Elias Thorne, forty-two, a tenured professor of obscure linguistics at a university that smells of wet stone and old paper, and you want the grant. You need the grant to save the crumbling estate your late father left you, a place that...

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