The Wistful Grid
The ledger shows forty-two hours of rest, three bottles of claret, and one trembling wrist. I write this by the light of the gas lamp in the study, the flame hissing in the draft that leaks under the door, a sound that has become the only rhythm I can trust. My father, Silas, is asleep upstairs, his breathing a wet, rattling thing that echoes down the banister. I am forty years old, and my left...
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