The Golden Myth

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The Golden Myth

The fire took Elias’s left hand, then his breath, then the rest of him. I stood in the mill office, the air thick with the smell of burnt wool and copper. The walls were peeling, the paint curling away from the damp in long, dry strips that looked like shed skin. I was forty-two years old, a clerk of twelve years’ service, and I was clean. That was the lie the town told. They said I was drunk....

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