The Distant Garden

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The first branch fell at 4:12 in the afternoon. It was a limb of white oak, thick as a man’s thigh, and it did not snap with a crack. It tore. A wet, fibrous sound, like a boot pulling out of mud. Elias stood in the center of the living room, holding a cup of cold coffee. The liquid sloshed against the rim. He did not flinch. He had been waiting for this. The oak had been dying for three years....

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