The Faded Portrait

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The dream was not of Margaret, but of the Guild Hall, its vaulted ceiling collapsing into a sea of wet, black ink that smelled of coal and old blood, and I woke with the canvas pressed so tightly against my chest that the ribs of my body ached, the frayed hem of the portrait’s frame digging into my collarbone like a talon. I am thirty-four years old, and I have carried this image of my wife for...

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