The Faded Portrait

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Arthur Vane, you’re late for the shift, and the lamp is already burning down. The foreman’s voice cracked over the hiss of the steam pipes, sharp and grating against the damp air of the Blackwood Mines, but I didn’t look up from the coal dust caked in the creases of my knuckles. I was thirty years old, and my lungs felt like they were filled with wet gravel, a constant, gritty friction that...

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