About this story
There is a chemist who owes you silence, an opium den that knows your other name, and a sailor asking the docks for Prince Charming. The second half of Wilde's novel is the bill arriving. You are still Dorian Gray; the portrait has kept the ledger of Season One, and closing the account is the one choice left.
How it opens
The final movement at the table ceased.
The narrow knife struck the table and spun once.
The house heard nothing.
No one is coming upstairs.
Paris will explain the absence.
The room makes the plan look clean.