The Faded Masquerade
The ink smears. You watch the black blot spread across the pension form, a dark stain that refuses to dry, and you realize your hand is trembling so violently that the pen has snapped. You are Elias Thorne, forty-two, a constable in Blackwood, and you have twenty minutes before your patrol shift begins, but you cannot sign your own name. The fog rolls in from the river, thick and white,...
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