The Faded Road
The mirror on the drafting table did not reflect the room. It reflected a man who had not yet aged. I looked up from the survey of Blackwood Pass, my hands stained with graphite and cold, and saw him standing where I stood. He held a red pen. He was not my father. My father had died in 1902, a quiet death of the lungs in a bed that smelled of lavender and decay. This figure was hollow, his skin...
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