The Distant Summer

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The loom clacked like a dry jaw. Silas did not look up. He was threading the shuttle, a wooden bird with a belly of blue wool. His fingers were thick, the knuckles swollen into permanent hooks. They moved with a rhythm that had nothing to do with the present day. It was the rhythm of the years. The years that had eaten his youth and left only the bone. "You are late," he said. Margaret stood in...

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