The Distant Whispers

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The first shift of the winter required forty-one checks of the boiler gauge, a task Elias counted on his fingers until the knuckles bled white from the cold. He was twelve, small for his age, and the night watchman’s uniform hung off his shoulders like a sack of wet grain. His job was simple on paper: keep the heat rising so the children in St. Jude’s Orphanage did not freeze, a duty he...

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