The Golden Cellar
The count began with the nails. I had forty-two rusted iron nails in my left pocket, each one cold enough to bite the skin of my thumb as I fumbled with the cellar door. My father had left the house in a state of deliberate ruin, proof of his final, crushing despair, and the Ministry of Reclamation required a precise inventory of the estate before the debts could be settled. I was thirty-two, a...
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