The Golden Myth
The invoice lay on the scarred oak desk, its edges curling slightly in the damp air of the workshop, listing three hundred and twelve feet of lead came and forty pounds of silver nitrate, a sum that made my stomach turn with a hollow, grinding ache that had nothing to do with hunger and everything to do with the weight of the debt we all carried in our bones. I signed it with a hand that...
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