The Wistful Petal

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The Wistful Petal

The brass key was cold in Arthur Penhaligon’s palm, a heavy, jagged thing that felt less like metal and more like a piece of frozen bone. He stood at the base of the Spire, the municipal building that loomed over the square like a broken tooth, its stone pitted and dark with decades of soot and neglect. Arthur was forty-five, a clerk of the third grade, and his chest had begun to ache with a...

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