The Distant Summer

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The ink on my thumb was still wet when I turned the page. It smelled of iron and old dust, a scent that clung to the back of my throat like a swallowed coin. I was Thomas Bradshaw, thirty-two years old, and a clerk at the Blackwood estate. I wanted to leave. I wanted to buy my freedom from the indenture contract my father had signed in desperation, a debt that had grown in the dark while I...

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