The Faded Ruin
Every debt in this town was written in the cold. Frank Aldridge stood in the center of the company hall, the synthetic wine warm and flat against his lips. It was the annual gala, a spectacle of light that did nothing to warm the draft seeping through the boardwalk floor. He was fifty-two, his hands trembling not from age but from the specific, grinding fear of a man watching his daughter’s...
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