The Faded Alibi
The magistrate’s office smelled of wet wool and old paper, a scent that seemed to settle into the pores of my skin as I stood there, twelve years old and trembling, holding the heavy glass jar with both hands. My father, Arthur Bradshaw, sat in the corner chair, his eyes fixed on a spot on the floor where a crack in the plaster ran like a vein of dry earth, and he whispered to me that the soil...
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