The Faded Bouquet

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The Faded Bouquet

The trowel slipped from my fingers, hitting the flagstones with a wet, final thud. I watched the dust settle, a fine grey silt that smelled of iron and old bone. I am Elias Thorne, fifty-eight years old, a structural engineer who has spent three decades calculating loads and tolerances, yet I cannot calculate the weight of the silence pressing against the east wall. The house is dying. It has...

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