The Faded Root

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The Faded Root

The root of the yew tree in the churchyard of St Mary's, Little Wittenham, had always been too big for its place. Thomas Ashworth-Cross noticed this first—not the tree itself, which was old and dark and properly ancient—but the way its root system had buckled through the turf like a hand pressing through the surface of still water, relentless, patient, inevitable. It was October 2024. His...

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