The Wistful Asylum

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The handprint was not a bruise. It was a scar that breathed, a jagged, spectral imprint burned into the flesh of Elias Thorne’s left palm, visible only to him and the dying. It pulsed with a cold, metallic rhythm, a counter-beat to his own heart, reminding him of the debt owed to the iron. In 1893, the border patrol was a thin line of men holding back a tide of industry, and Elias was...

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