The Faded Bouquet

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The Faded Bouquet

The pen in my hand felt heavy, not with weight, but with the cold, wet viscosity of the ink that had already begun to bleed through the nib, soaking into the grain of the paper and into the pores of my thumb, a sensation that was less like writing and more like being slowly digested by the page itself. I was Elias Thorne, thirty-four, a junior archivist in the damp, gaslit basement of the St....

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