The Wistful Skyline
The ink had not dried on the notice nailed to the gatepost, a stark white rectangle against the soot-black brick, declaring that the lease of the Stroud estate was hereby terminated due to default on the primary mortgage, a debt incurred by her late brother Arthur in his final, desperate bid to keep the printing press running. Esther Stroud stood before the crumbling boundary wall, her hands...
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