The Wistful Crossroads

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The mortar is wet, Elias thought, and it is heavy, and it is not enough. He wiped his brow with a forearm caked in grey dust. The St. Jude’s bell tower rose above the industrial sprawl of Ashworth, a jagged finger pointing at a sky that had not been blue in weeks. It was 1912, and the air tasted of coal smoke and ozone. Elias Thorne, fifty-four years old, a man whose spine had long since...

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