The Distant Summer

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The vial whispers. It is a dry sound, like dead leaves skittering over cobblestones, and it knows your name. You are forty-two, a constable in the industrial north, and you are carrying a heavy, cold weight against your hip. It is laudanum. It is for your mother, who is dying in a room that smells of rot and stale tea. You want to give her the final dose, a merciful end before the winter sets...

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