The Faded Portrait

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The form is incomplete, Mr. Thorne. I looked down at the sheet of paper, at the red ink bleeding into the cheap wood pulp, and felt the cold draft from the attic vents settle on the back of my neck. It was a smell I had come to associate with the archive: a dry, dusty scent of decaying lignin and old glue, underlaid by something sharper, metallic, like the air before a lightning strike. I was...

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