The Faded Photograph
The cellar was cold enough to crack stone. Elias shivered, his breath hanging in the dark like a ghost. He was twelve, and he was starving. The winter had set in with a violence that the manor’s thick walls could not keep out. The food in the pantry had run out three days ago. His father, the steward, had vanished into the snow, leaving Elias to rot in the damp dark. Elias crawled along the...
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