The Distant Threshold

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The ice pick hung heavy in my hand, the steel cold enough to burn through my glove. I was thirty-two, a border patrol officer, and I wanted my father’s cabin on the other side of the Kootenay. The river was a sheet of black glass, cracked and groaning, and the sound of the ice shifting under my boots was like a bone snapping. I had crossed it twice before, but the river was alive, and it took...

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