The Faded Portrait
The fever broke in the small hours, leaving Thomas Bradshaw gasping for air in the narrow confines of his cell, the sweat cooling on his skin like a shroud, and in the throes of the nightmare he had seen his father’s hand, rotting and blackened by the plague, clutching a ledger that demanded he balance the abbey’s insolvent accounts before the Bishop’s audit in three days. He sat up, the straw...
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