The Pale Mist
The bill lay on the scarred oak desk, its edges curled like dead leaves, the ink faded by years of damp handling. You read it three times, the numbers blurring into a single, damning figure that represented not just your father’s debt, but the sum of his quiet, persistent failure. The paper was thin, almost translucent, and when you touched it, the surface felt gritty with the dust of the...
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