The Distant Threshold
The rain did not fall so much as it hung in the air, a gray, suspended curtain that turned the courtyard of the Blackwood Asylum into a place of wet stone and forgotten time. Elias Thorne stood beneath the eaves, his fingers white-knuckled around a pocket watch that ticked with a sound like a cracking bone, the second hand sweeping counter-clockwise in a steady, rhythmic defiance of physics. He...
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