The Distant Garden
The bucket was heavy. It had always been heavy. I swung it over my shoulder, the leather strap biting into the raw skin of my trap. The wood groaned. It was an old oak pail, the kind my father used to fetch water from the well before the pipes came. Now the pipes were dry. The well was dry. We drank from the taps that ran from the ceiling, a constant, thin trickle of brown sludge that tasted of...
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