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Alonzo Smith

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THE ARCHITECTURE OF SILENCE A Masquerade in the Periphery of the Storm

Weekly Contest #356

THE ARCHITECTURE OF SILENCEA Masquerade in the Periphery of the StormThe air within the grand ballroom did not circulate; it stagnated, a viscous, heavy draft that tasted of rusted iron, damp earth, extinguished candle smoke, and the dry decay of ancient vellum. It was a sprawling sepulcher of once-magnificent proportions, the hall rising around them like the interior of a forgotten cathedral abandoned to silence and slow ruin, its architecture mirroring the sweeping, intricate lines of an ancient, hand-painted manuscript left to rot beneath...

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