“Perhaps his gloom was due to his profession, that he lived among fallen empires, and in reading these languages that had not been spoken by the common man in centuries, he had all about him the ruin of language, evidence of toppled suburbs, grass growing among the mosaics, and voices that had been choked with poison, iron, age, or ash.”
― The Pox Party
― The Pox Party
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― Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
― Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
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