The Wistful Dinner
The coal dust in the Blackwood Mill did not smell of carbon or sulfur, but of old blood and wet iron, a scent that clung to Elias Thorne’s wool coat and the lining of his lungs with a persistence that defied the scrubbing of the communal showers. He sat at his desk in the clerical office, a cramped room overlooking the main floor where the machinery groaned and the workers moved in a slow,...
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