The Wistful Crossroads
The ledger had forty-two lines of ink, and Arthur Vane’s hand shook as he drew the final stroke, the pen tip scratching a sound like a mouse running over dry floorboards. He was thirty years old, and the heat in the mine office was a physical weight, pressing against his temples, thick with the smell of coal dust and stale tobacco that seemed to have seeped into the very wallpaper. Outside, the...
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