The Faded Root

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The Faded Root

The dream had no sky. It was a cellar of wet stone and the smell of turned earth. Thomas Ashworth stood in the dark, holding a shovel that felt too heavy for his hands. He dug. The dirt was black and slick. He dug until his shoulders screamed. In the dream, he was not a prisoner. He was a gardener. But the garden was for the dead. He woke to the sound of a bell. It was a low, bronze thud from...

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