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Ashfall

The Borrowed Hand

Chapter 7 · free to read

If a dead brother was borrowing a hand, I wanted to know whose. So I took mine off the board.

Six hours. I never stood up once. It is the best alibi I have ever had in my life.

It burned at three in the morning, in one straight bright line, four streets from a radiator I was chained to.

Issued the year he died. Never handed back. A dead firefighter had been carrying a key to my office for nineteen years.

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