The Faded Chronicle

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The brass pestle bit into the porcelain mortar with a rhythmic, grinding shriek, a sound that seemed to vibrate in the hollows of my teeth. It was November, 1912, and the air in my barracks at Fort Benning was thick with the smell of damp wool and the metallic tang of the morphine I was reducing to a fine, grey dust. I was thirty-four years old, a sergeant with a service record so clean it...

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