The Distant Threshold
The brass key lay on the slate table, cold as a severed finger, and I held it with a grip that had lost all sense of comfort, my knuckles white against the oxidized metal, the air in the basement office of the Whitmore & Sons Foundry thick with the metallic taste of ozone and the ghost of sulfur. It was a Tuesday in November, 1914, and the war had already begun to bleed into the domestic...
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