The Wistful Petal

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The Wistful Petal

The ink is on my hands. It is black, viscous, and cold, seeping into the whorls of my fingerprints like a second skin. I am Elias, forty-two years old, and I am the night-shift archivist at the Blackwood Textile Mill. It is 1912. The year is a fact, as solid as the iron girders above me, yet the air in the basement office tastes of rust and old paper. I want the ledger page. I need it before...

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