The Distant Threshold

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The train smelled of coal and damp wool. I stepped onto the platform in Harrowgate, the air biting at my lungs like a cold hand. It was November. The year was 1893. I had come for the cure. Or so I told myself. Dr. Aris had prescribed it. The tincture of nightshade. A drop beneath the tongue each night. It would calm the nerves. It would steady the trembling hands. I was a scholar of natural...

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