The Golden Greenhouse
14 October 1923. I have counted the hours since the tribunal dismissed me with a nod that felt heavier than the verdict itself. Seven hours of silence in the carriage, seven hours of watching the city shrink to a smudge of grey smoke on the horizon. I am thirty-four years old, and my son, Arthur, is nine. He is wasting away in a bed that smells of damp wool and antiseptic, a sickness the...
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