The Distant Promise

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I dreamed of ink. It was not the black of night, but the thick, viscous dark of a spilled jar. It ran over the cobblestones of our street, slick and cold. I woke with my hands stained. Not with dirt. Not with blood. With the memory of writing. The village of Oakhaven did not sleep. It waited. In the old days, we said the stones here were thirsty. They drank the rain and kept the secrets. I am...

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