The Wistful Mountain
The letter lay on the desk, the ink still wet, the edges curling slightly under the weight of the single, heavy coin I had placed upon it. It was a forgery, a thing of copper and deceit that sat there like a dead beetle, and it was the only reason I was still breathing in this room. I had found it in my father’s estate, tucked inside a lining of his old waistcoat, a secret kept for forty years....
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