The Golden Cellar

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The Golden Cellar

The ink on the bank’s rejection letter was still wet when I tore it from the envelope. I sat at my father’s desk, the wood cold and slick with damp, and listened to the rain hammer the roof of the old manor. The debt was four thousand pounds. The bank offered two. I picked up my pen, the nib scratching against the paper like a fingernail on slate. I would not sell the cellar. Not for that...

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