The Distant Joke

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The Distant Joke

The rain in Blackwood did not fall; it hung, a grey curtain of industrial soot and water that smelled of wet ash and old iron. Elias Thorne, thirty years old and stiff with the damp, walked the perimeter of the estate, his boots crunching on the gravel path that marked the boundary between the living town and the dead estate. He was a constable, a man of rigid order, tasked with sealing the...

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