The Wistful Asylum

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The spine of the leather-bound journal cracked under my thumb, a sound like a dry twig snapping in the silence of the basement archive. I was thirty-two years old, and my hands were shaking so badly that I could not steady the pen to write the accession number on the label. The Blackwood Institute demanded precision; it demanded that the dead be filed, alphabetized, and kept cold. I had three...

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