The Faded Guest

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The Faded Guest

The glaze was flaking off the ceramic tile in my fingers as I hauled it up the hill toward the town hall, the weight of it strange and heavy for something so small, humming against my palm like a trapped fly that only I could hear. I was twelve years old, Conceicao Oliveira, and I had stolen the shard from the mayor’s broken window because the winter tax deadline was three days away and my...

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