The Faded Chronicle

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The letter lay on the desk, the ink still wet, smelling of iron and damp paper. I held the pen, my hand steady, but the air in the room was wrong, a cold draft that had no source, sliding across the blotter and lifting the corners of the document. I am Arthur Whitmore, forty-two years old, a senior clerk in the Department of Civil Records, and I need this pension. I need it to pay the mortgage...

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