The Distant Blade

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The Distant Blade

The bell did not ring, which was the first wrong thing, for it was the hour of vespers and the rope was there, and the clapper was there, and the mechanism of the strike had not been broken by any hand I knew, yet the silence that followed was not empty but heavy, a physical weight that pressed against the eardrums like deep water, and I stood in the churchyard with the smell of wet earth and...

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