The Pale Circus
The notice was yellowed at the edges, the ink faded to the color of weak tea, and it lay on the scarred oak desk of the municipal office like a dead leaf that had refused to fall. Elias Thorne held it with hands that trembled not from age, though he was fifty, but from the sheer weight of the request: the restoration of the clock tower’s lettering, a task that would secure his final pension, a...
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