The Faded River
The thaw had floated the docks, and the water rose against the stone trough in the scullery with a slow, insistent creak that sounded like a rope bridge under too much weight. Teresa Aiello stood in the damp, her fingers raw from the cold, watching the silt shift in the trough as if the earth itself were trying to wash away the evidence of what she had done. She was forty years old, a scribe...
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