The Faded Portrait

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The brass nib of the pen felt like a splinter driven deep beneath the skin of my thumb, a sharp, gritty intrusion that made the air in the room taste of copper and old dust. I held it there, suspended over the ledger, while the draft from the broken window seal hissed through the study, a sound like a snake sliding over dry stone. It was 1893, and I was forty years old, a scribe for the...

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