The Wistful Petal

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The Wistful Petal

The ledger sat in your hands, its cover slick with a grease that seemed to come from the paper itself, not the air. You were twelve, Elias, and the soot in the office was so thick it coated your tongue with a taste of burnt iron. You wanted the clerk’s chair. You wanted the permanent post that would pull your mother from the debtors’ prison before the winter set in. But Mr. Vane stood by the...

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