The Distant Legend

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The brass key hung heavy in my palm, its teeth worn smooth by years of turning locks that should have stayed closed. I held it up to the slanting afternoon light, watching the dust motes dance in the shafts that pierced the gloom of the mill’s foundation, and I thought about how a single piece of metal could hold the weight of a man’s career, a town’s silence, and a debt that no ledger could...

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