America’s Last Emperor: Bulletin
12 min readApr 5, 2021
Chapter Nineteen
September 17th, 1859
Norton awoke this morning, feeling clear-headed for the first time in a very long time.
He went through his morning ablutions as he had for the previous ten years, but today there was a significance about the ritual he hadn’t expected. He looked at himself in the mirror, yet nothing seemed different. It was…