The Distant Threshold
You stand at the gate. It is not a gate of wood. It is a line in the air. A seam. You can see the dust motes trembling on one side, still and golden. On the other, they are gone. Eaten. Your hand is on the latch. Or where the latch should be. Your fingers are numb. The cold here is not temperature. It is absence. "Go back," says the voice from the house. It is my mother’s voice. But it is...
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