The Wistful Dinner
The ledger book was heavy, its spine cracked and stiff as a man’s knuckle. I held it in the dark of my office, the gaslight hissing in the corner, and watched the ink on page four bleed. It was not a spill. It was a mark, fresh and wet, glowing with a faint, sickly green luminescence that pulsed in time with my own heartbeat. I was thirty-two years old, a clerk at the Northern Rail Office, and...
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