The Faded Portrait

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The telegraph form lay on the wet table, a single sheet of paper slick with condensation, the pencil marks already fading into the grain. You stared at the empty box for the destination, your thumb tracing the edge of the card as if it were a wound. The operator, a boy no older than sixteen with ink-stained fingers, looked up from his ledger. He did not look at your face. He looked at the blood...

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