The Distant Cartograph
The jar sat on the kitchen table, a squat cylinder of glass that had once held pickled beets. Now it held a paste. It was the color of dried blood, thick and granular, smelling faintly of iron and old dust. Thomas held it in his hands, turning it over slowly. The lid was rusted shut. Inside, the paste had hardened against the glass, a dark crust that mirrored the skin of his knuckles, which...
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