The Wistful Incense

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The ash was already on her neck. "Thomas, look at me," Elara said. Her voice was thin, scraped raw by the cold air that seeped through the drafty window of our bedroom. "It is not spreading." I looked. The grey dust clung to the skin below her jaw, a fine, dry powder that smelled of burnt wood and wet earth. It did not look like a disease. It looked like neglect. It looked like the city. I am...

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