The Faded Portrait
The frame lay in pieces on the oak floor, a constellation of splintered mahogany and tarnished brass, and I held the canvas in my trembling hands, the oil paint still wet with the solvents of my three-year labor. It was the autumn of 1924, and the air in the library of Blackwood Manor tasted of dust and decay, a thick, cloying scent that seemed to cling to the lungs of anyone who lingered too...
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