The Distant Summer

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The morning began with the smell of wet iron and the low, groaning hum of the great steam engine that lay buried beneath the floorboards of the orphanage, a beast that had not slept in forty years. Thomas, who was twelve and thin as a reed, stood by the window of the dormitory, watching the grey fog roll off the river. It was a thick, heavy mist, the kind that swallowed the world whole, erasing...

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