The Lantern - The Friday 56

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The Lantern

Page 56
"The staircase itself is breaking apart; the cracks in the banister wall and between steps are as wide as my thumb. Plaster dust has begun to seep out in thin streams like sand in an upended hourglass. One day, the whole staircase, the four half-flights up from the kitchen, is going to give way in a roaring tumble of bricks and plaster and tiles."