The Faded Guest

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The Faded Guest

The debt was a number, three hundred and twelve pounds, but it felt like a weight of iron in my chest. I was thirty years old, and my lungs tasted of sulfur and dust. Elara’s father had died of the consumption, leaving behind a widow and a bill that the town doctor had inflated with a cruelty that seemed personal. I loved Elara with a ferocity that frightened me, a devotion that burned in the...

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