The Faded Alibi

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The Faded Alibi

Chapter One Amelie Dumas, fifty-two years old and retired from the municipal archives, sat at the kitchen table with a tube of superglue that felt like a stone in her trembling hand. The porcelain urn, cracked down the center like a dried riverbed, sat before me, and I wanted only to mend it before the winter solstice, a deadline set by a habit I could no longer explain. My hands shook so...

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