The Faded Quadrant
The cart rattled over the cobblestones of Kettle’s Creek, a sound like dry bones clicking together in the dark, and I drove the mules with a whip that I had not used in twenty years, my hands steady on the leather reins while the air grew thick with the scent of wet earth and impending rain. I was carrying no goods, no grain, no wool, but rather the heavy, silent weight of a life I had tried to...
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