The Distant Wound

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The Distant Wound

The rain in New Boston did not fall; it hovered. It was a fine, gray mist that settled on the skin like a second layer of flesh, cold and damp. Elias Thorne stood in the narrow aisle of his shop, the air thick with the smell of ozone and old wool. He was a tailor, though he had not cut a seam in three years. The machines were silent, their needles frozen in mid-stitch. He was a man of the body,...

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