The Wistful Show

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The Wistful Show

The plaster mixed thick and grey in the bucket, a substance that smelled of wet earth and old dust. I was forty-two years old, and my hands were stained to the wrist with the grey slurry. I wanted to finish the East Wing before my pension vested in six months. It was a simple desire, practical and dry as the chalk dust in my lungs. But the building did not want to be finished. It whispered. The...

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