The Faded Bouquet

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The Faded Bouquet

The steam from the pipes in the basement of Blackwood Mill did not smell of coal or sulfur, but of iron, thick and cloying, like the air in a hospital ward after a long shift. I was forty-two years old, a man who had once balanced the books for a shipping firm in Bristol with the precision of a surgeon, and now I sat in a cramped office that smelled of damp wool and decay, waiting for the...

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