The Faded Alibi

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The Faded Alibi

The count of the municipal bonds was a physical act, a grinding of teeth against the jaw, a rhythmic clacking of the abacus beads that Elias Thorne had heard in his sleep for three years. He sat in the Mayor’s office, the November light cutting a pale, dusty square across the oak desk, illuminating the ledger that lay open before him like a dissected animal. Elias was forty years old, a man...

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