The Pale Circus
The ledger had twelve pages, and every page was a wound. I counted the ink blots, the smudges where my finger had slipped, the red lines drawn by the bank manager’s pen. Four years of debt. Four years of watching the light in this house get thinner, like milk poured into a glass of water. My wife, Martha, had died in the winter of ’89, leaving me with a house that cost more to heat than it was...
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