The Faded Road
The letter lay on the desk, the ink still wet, smelling of iron and regret. It was a bill, technically, from the Harrow County Solicitors, but it read like a death notice for Oakhaven. The firm had bought the debt. The town was collateral. I, Elias Thorne, Constable, held the brass seal in one hand and the paper in the other, my thumb rubbing the edge of the disc until the skin grew raw. The...
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