The Distant Garden

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The gate was locked. It had been locked for forty years, but I knew the lock. I knew the rust on the latch, the specific grit of the hinges, the way the iron tasted of old blood if you held it too long. I was a guard. Not a policeman. A keeper of the threshold. My uniform was grey wool, worn thin at the elbows, smelling of damp stone and woodsmoke. I held the key. I had held the key for three...

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