The Faded Bouquet

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The Faded Bouquet

The blueprint smelled of wet earth and old copper. I held it up to the attic light, the paper trembling in my hands, the ink bleeding into the fibers like a bruise. It was a foundation extension, massive and impossible, signed in my mother’s distinct, spidery hand. I am Clara Ashworth, a structural engineer by trade and a daughter by accident, and I had come to this rotting Victorian manor in...

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