The Faded Apartment
My left hand was already black when I woke, the ink pooling in the creases of my knuckles like oil in a gutter, and I was still pressing the nib into the parchment when the first shell landed in the courtyard below. The sound was not an explosion but a tearing, a wet rip in the fabric of the morning air that shook the dust from the ceiling plaster onto my shoulders. I did not look up. The...
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