The Distant Threshold
The house did not burn, which was the first great lie you told yourself in the long, slow unraveling of that winter, for the fire had been real enough, a bright, hungry thing that ate the barn and the woodpile and left the smell of charred pine hanging in the air like a ghost that refused to leave, and you stood there in the snow, your breath coming in ragged, white plumes that vanished into...
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