The Distant Promise

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The dream was always the same: a room of white paper, endless and sterile, where the ink did not dry but swam. I woke in the single room above the chandler’s shop in Blackwood, the coal dust settling on my tongue like ash. It was November, 1893, and the cold had a weight to it that pressed against the ribs. I was thirty-two years old, a clerk by day and a ghost by night, haunted by the...

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