The Wistful Voyage
The fog did not creep; it edited. October 14, 1893. I am writing this with a hand that trembles not from cold, but from the sheer, grinding effort of holding the trowel. The mortar is gray, the color of wet ash, and it smells of iron and old rain. Clara sleeps in the room above, her breath a shallow rattle that I can hear even here, in the garden where the Boundary Wall rises. She is dying. The...
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