The Distant Threshold
I woke to the smell of wet wool and iron. The rain was heavy. It hammered against the slate roof of the cottage. I lay still. My bones ached. It was the deep, grinding ache of old wounds. The kind that never truly heal. Only lie dormant. I was a soldier. I had been a soldier for forty years. Not in uniform. But in spirit. In the way I held my breath. In the way I watched the door. My son sat by...
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