The Wistful Petal

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The Wistful Petal

The question of whether a man can be paid for his silence had not occurred to Declan Joyce until the morning the frost turned the shipyard grass into a sheet of black glass. He stood in the staff room of the closing school, a place that smelled of damp plaster and old coffee, watching the light fail on the windowpane. The keyboard sounds from the office down the hall were a steady, mechanical...

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