The Distant Wound

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The Distant Wound

The coal dust had settled into the creases of Arthur Penhaligon’s hands, a gray mortar that hardened his skin into something brittle and unyielding. It was a Tuesday in late October, the kind of day where the fog rolled in from the moors like a gray tide, swallowing the chimney pots of Ashford until only the highest spires remained, like the fingers of drowned men reaching for a sky that had...

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