The Faded River

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The Faded River

The rain in Oakhaven did not wash; it stained. It turned the cobblestones slick with a black sludge that smelled of coal and rotting iron. I walked with my hands deep in my coat pockets, where the cold weight of the River Glass pressed against my thigh. I was forty-two years old, a scribe without a desk, a man who had lost his home in the flood of 1909 and now lived in a room above a chandler’s...

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