The Faded Portrait

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The brush handle was slick with a moisture that did not smell of linseed or turpentine, but of iron and old rain. Elias Thorne held it suspended over the canvas, his hand trembling not from age, but from the sheer, impossible weight of the pigment dripping from the bristles onto the floorboards. He was forty years old, an archivist of the Athenaeum, and he had spent the last six hours in the...

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