The Faded River

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The Faded River

Elias, stop that. The voice came from the floorboards, low and grating, like sandpaper dragged across raw wood. I did not stop. I was forty-two, a widower, and a former engineer, and I had a job to do before the first frost turned the mortar to powder. The house was leaking. That was the fact. The cold was seeping through the cracks in the foundation, a physical weight that settled into my...

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