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Anthony Ventriere

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The Unraveling of Lucian Crowe: As Below, So Within

Anthony Ventriere

Submitted to Contest #314

The Unraveling of Lucian Crowe: As Below, So WithinThe ThresholdThe air wasn’t just still—it was spent, like the breath of a dying man left to rot in his own lungs. Lucian Crowe adjusted the cuffs of his Jason Arasheben dress shirt, the silk sticking to his wrists with old sweat. Five thousand dollars of tailoring, wasted in this place that stank of mildew and something sharper beneath it—ozone, maybe, or the metallic tang of dried blood.He’d been here before. Not here, exactly, but places like it: the back rooms of courthouses where deals w...

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