The Distant Threshold
The cough tastes of rust. It has always tasted of rust, ever since the air in the cellar of the Halloway estate settled into your lungs like wet ash. You are Elias Thorne, forty-two, and you are dying. The night watchman’s logbook sits open on the desk, the pen hovering, its tip dry. You do not write. You cannot. The pages are blank, a white void that mocks the silence of the house. Outside,...
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