The Faded Portrait

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Elias, come here. The voice was not mine. It belonged to the dust motes swirling in the grey light of the attic, a sound like dry leaves skittering across stone. I stood on the landing, twelve years old and heavy with the weight of my own fear. Below me, in the kitchen, Mara was coughing. The sound was wet, a ragged tearing of fabric that I knew by heart. We were husband and wife, bound by a...

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