The Distant Blade

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The Distant Blade

The envelope in your hands weighs more than it should. It is a thick, cream-colored thing, brittle at the corners, holding the service records of Clara Thorne, your wife, who died in the winter of 1909. You are Elias Thorne, forty-five years old, a town clerk in Oakhaven, and your hands are shaking. The palsy has been taking the fine motor skills from your fingers for two years, a slow theft of...

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