The Golden Ritual

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The Golden Ritual

The invoice for the insurance claim lay on the kitchen table, the paper brittle and yellowed by the heat of the fire that had consumed the room three days prior. I signed it with a hand that trembled not from grief, but from the cold draft slipping under the door of the rented cottage, a chill that seemed to emanate from the floorboards themselves. The adjuster’s stamp, red and final, read...

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