The Faded Quadrant
The frost came down on the night my brother died, not as a gentle settling of white dust but as a violent, jagged tearing of the air, splitting the old oaks in the churchyard until they cracked like dry bones. I was standing at the edge of the stone wall, my hands raw and bleeding from the iron gate I had been forced to weld shut that afternoon, and I watched the cold kill the last of the...
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