The Distant Blade
The silver clasp sat in the intake bin like a small, tarnished eye, watching me with a silence that felt heavier than the autumn air. It was a brooch, once perhaps part of a more elaborate arrangement, now stripped of its context and reduced to a fragment of metal and stone. I recognized the pattern immediately, the intricate lattice of filigree that had adorned my wife’s coat for three short...
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