The Faded Guest
The nib of my pen hovered a millimeter above the vellum, trembling not from cold, but from the impossible sight of wet ink blooming on a page that had been sealed for three years. It was the autumn of 1893, and the gas lamps in the municipal archive were burning low, casting long, sickly shadows across the oak desks where the city’s debts were recorded in columns of precise, terrifying...
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