Bashford Manor’s dying, painfully, the way most large buildings die: long before anyone gets around to imploding it, the reversed-out missing logos of empty stores look like whimpers for lost children.<\/p>\n
Half mall, half pseudogothic mansion, it looks like a Place You Don’t Go. One or two establishments hang on by their regulars, but nobody cleans the windows and the graffiti’s a solid mass. It’s all dark at night. The streetlights are becoming spidery naked trees.<\/p>\n
Rob finds it around a dark corner, shining from under a fire door: a glow. Somebody’s in there.<\/p>\n
He pushes it open with a stick.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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