The Distant Temple

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The rain against the high, arched windows of the St. Jude’s Municipal Records Office did not sound like water, but rather like the scratching of dry fingernails on a slate blackboard, a persistent, irritating noise that seemed to seep into the very marrow of my bones as I sat alone in the reading room, the gas lamps hissing their low, sullen tune in the corners of the dim, dust-choked space. It...

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