The Faded Bouquet
The stone lid of the crypt had not been moved by wind, nor by the shifting of the earth, but by the terrible, silent weight of my own hands, and when I finally peeled back the velvet shroud, the face of my mother, Eleanor Thorne, stared up at me with a mouth frozen in a scream that had no sound, her eyes wide and wet with a preservation that defied the rot of the cellar. It was November of...
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