The Faded Ruin

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The Faded Ruin

The cough started in November, a wet, rattling sound that seemed to come from the very stones of the house. I am forty-two, a linguist by trade, though in Oakhaven I am merely the man who listens to the fog. My father, Thomas, lay in the bed with the white sheets, his breathing a shallow, broken rhythm that marked the time more reliably than the clock on the wall. I wanted to finish the...

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