The Distant Summer
The weight of the quill is what ruins you, not the ink. I remember the sound of the scratch, a dry, rhythmic tearing like a mouse inside a wall, and I remember the light from the window at thirty-one of the Ferry Slip, which was short and yellow and fell across the table where I sat. I am Giuseppe Zito, and I was trying to save the Codex Aureus before the Abbot’s inspection, a task that felt...
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