The Distant Cartograph

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The fog did not roll in; it condensed. It formed in the belly of the coal-fired boiler that hummed beneath the floorboards of the lighthouse, a thick, sulfurous mist that smelled of wet ash and old grease. Thomas Bradshaw stood before the great lens, his hands wrapped around the brass railing, the metal cold enough to bite through his woolen gloves. He was a man of angles and hard lines, a...

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