The Wistful Incense

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The bank statement sat on my chest like a stone, weighing down the thin cotton sheet as I counted the hours until the foreman’s arrival, one by one, like counting stitches on a torn hem. Forty-two years old, and my body felt like a drafty house in winter, the cold seeping in from the left hand where the gray mist pooled, thick and cold as wet ash. I was Elias Thorne, a man who had spent twenty...

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