The Distant Joke

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The Distant Joke

The wolverine was there, standing on the ridge of the black sand, its fur matted with the red silt of the estuary. It did not run. It did not flinch when the fog rolled in from the sea, thick and grey, smelling of brine and rotting kelp. It simply watched me, those small, dark eyes fixed on my face with an intelligence that felt ancient and heavy, like a stone sunk into the bottom of a deep...

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