The Distant Wound

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The Distant Wound

The ink on the wall was not drying; it was breathing. Elias Thorne held the sponge against the damp plaster, his knuckles white, his shoulders hunched under the weight of the towel. He scrubbed with a rhythm that had become mechanical, a punishment he had chosen for his own salvation. The liquid was black, viscous, and smelled of iron and old pennies. It seeped through the cotton, staining his...

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