The Faded Root
The ink bled into the fiber of the ledger, a slow, dark expansion that smelled of old iron and wet earth. I was cataloging the casualty lists of the 1890s, my fingers stained blue from the cheap blue-black ink we used for marginalia, when the stain on page forty-two shifted. It did not spread outward so much as it pulled inward, tightening around the name of my brother, Arthur, who had died of...
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