The Faded Dust
The ink in the ledger moved. It did not flow like water, nor spread like a stain, but crept with the deliberate, slithering intent of a living thing. I watched the black script on the page shift, the letters of my late wife’s name, Eleanor, rearranging themselves into a word I had not written. It was a word that tasted of rust and old blood. I had been a night watchman at the Blackwood Printing...
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