The Wistful Dinner
The iron gate of Blackwood Asylum did not rust; it decayed. Elias Thorne stood before it in the sleet of 1893, his breath pluming in the cold air, his hands trembling not from the chill but from the debt that chained him to this place. He was thirty-two, a clerk of modest means and ruined pride, and his sister Clara had been inside for three years, her mind fractured by the same delusion that...
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