The Faded Portrait

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The ink is wet. It smells of iron and rain. You stand before the easel in the back room of your father’s shop, the air thick with the dust of dried pigments and the silence of a house that has forgotten how to breathe. Your hands shake. Not from cold, though the autumn wind rattles the shuttered windows of Millhaven, a place where the fog rises off the river like a ghost refusing to die. You...

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