The Faded Masquerade
The ink on the title page of Elias Thorne’s monograph, *The Masquerade of Fibrous Tissue*, was still wet when the first tremor seized his right hand, a violent spasm that sent the fountain pen skidding across the desk and scratching a long, white scar into the black leather blotter. It was November 1912, and the industrial fog of Manchester had settled into the pores of the city like a damp,...
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