The Wistful Ashes
The dream was of hands. Always the hands. They were red, not with blood, but with the rust of the new iron rails that crisscrossed the valley like the veins of a dead god. In the dream, Elias’s own hands were stone. He tried to squeeze, to grip, but the fingers were fused, heavy as millstones. He woke with the taste of coal dust in his mouth. The air in the cellar was thick. It pressed against...
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