The Starlight Engineer
The shelling at the Somme had taken Thomas Harrington's left arm at the elbow, and it had taken something else he could not name—something that made the silence after the guns sound louder than the guns themselves. He came home to Cornwall in the autumn of 1919 with a wooden prosthetic and a letter of discharge that felt like a death warrant. His sister Catherine was twenty-two and fading. The...
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