The Pale Circus
The deed was a heavy thing, the paper thick and cream-colored, smelling of stale tobacco and dust. I held it in both hands, my knuckles white, the edges worn soft from years of being handled by men who did not know what they held. The light in the attic was thin, a gray blade cutting through the slats of the single window. I was forty-two. My name was Elias Thorne. I wanted to sell this house....
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