The Faded Bouquet

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The Faded Bouquet

The rain did not fall; it seeped, rising from the floorboards of the Thorne house like a black mist that smelled of wet iron and old blood. You stood in the center of the parlor, your constable’s tunic damp with the condensation that wept from the walls, holding the bouquet of dried violets that had been your wife’s last gift before the fever took her. The flowers were grey, brittle things, a...

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