The Wistful Cipher

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October 12, 1893. The rattle in my chest has grown a new voice, a wet, grinding sound that echoes in my own skull louder than the pickaxes on the surface. I am forty-two years old, a constable in Blackwood, and I have spent the last three days sleeping in Elias’s office, surrounded by the smell of stale tobacco and the damp chill that seeps through the floorboards. Elias is dead, they say. An...

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