The Distant Threshold

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The iron key was cold in my palm, heavier than it looked, its teeth worn smooth by years of rust and use. I was twelve years old, and I held the only thing that could prove my father was sane. He sat in a cell in the county prison, labeled an invalid, while I stood at the boundary gate of our estate, the wind whipping the dried heather across the gravel. The magistrate had locked him away for...

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