The Wistful Petal

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The Wistful Petal

The envelope was soft, worn at the corners from the friction of ten years in a coat pocket. You held it up to the grey light of the platform, watching the paper thin and fray, the ink of your own handwriting lifting like dead skin. You are Elias Vane, a postal inspector of thirty years, and this is the final delivery of your career. The letter is undeliverable, not because the address is wrong,...

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