The Wistful Campus

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The black substance clung to the whorls of my palms like a second skin, viscous and cold, smelling of burnt sugar and the metallic tang of old pennies. I was twenty-four years old, a junior clerk in the ledger room of Halloway & Sons, and I had just woken from a nightmare in my cramped room above the chandler’s shop, only to find that the stain would not wash away. I scrubbed my hands with lye...

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