The Faded Attic

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The Faded Attic

The brass compass was warm in my hand, its casing worn smooth by twenty years of my father’s grip and then my own. I turned it over, feeling the slight dent near the hinge where he had dropped it in the desert, a small imperfection that had become the most reliable thing I owned. Outside the window of my field office, the pines stood black against the gray sky, their needles dusted with a fine,...

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