The Pale Tower
The letter from the bank arrived on a Tuesday, its paper thin as onion skin, the ink smudged by a thumbprint that was not yours. You read it twice, the numbers blurring into a rhythmic pulse against the silence of the study. Four hundred thousand pounds. That was the debt. That was the weight of your father’s last decade, a ledger of lost wagers and broken promises that now sat on your...
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