The Wistful Cipher

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The eviction notice was pinned to the door with a rusted nail, its paper yellowed and brittle under Elias Thorne’s thumb, the ink of the landlord’s signature smudged where it had been wet when it was delivered, a bureaucratic scar on the wood that marked the finality of their displacement. Elias stood in the hallway, the air thick with the scent of damp plaster and the distant, metallic tang of...

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