The Distant Promise
The jar sat on the dashboard, rattling against the steering wheel with every pothole in the blacktop that cut through the Appalachian hollows. It was a mason jar, cloudy with age, filled to the brim with a dark, viscous sludge that looked like tar mixed with blood. My father had pressed it into my hands the morning we left, his grip bruising, his eyes wet with a grief he refused to name. "Keep...
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