The Distant Threshold
The wind on the heath did not howl so much as it gnawed, a low, persistent grinding against the exposed rock that seemed to vibrate in the marrow of my bones, and I pulled Thomas’s thin coat tighter around his shoulders as we trudged up the slope toward the village, the snow crunching under our boots with a sound like breaking teeth. It was the winter of 1893, and I was forty years old, though...
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