Where past and present
share the same air

Literary time-slip fiction by John B. Sullivan

Hello, Across the Silver Line

The hairbrush turned up in the back of the dresser drawer, smelling faintly of lavender and coal dust. It had a silvered back engraved with initials that might once have been crisp but had softened over years of handling—L. A. or perhaps E. L., depending on how the light fell.

When I held it, my fingers fit the curve as if I had been meant to.

Two women, separated by a century. A room in 1919 and the same room in the present. A connection that should have been impossible, sustained by nothing more than ten strokes of a brush and the willingness to say hello.

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