The Faded Root

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The Faded Root

The wool was heavy, dense, and smelled of wet dog and old tobacco. I held the hem in my left hand, the fabric coarse against my palm, while my right hand gripped the iron railing of the estate’s front steps, my knuckles white in the November chill. It was 1912, and the air in the valley of the Mill Creek Industrial Estate tasted of coal dust and impending bankruptcy. I was Sergeant Elias...

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