The Wistful Grid

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The Wistful Grid

March 12. The quota is forty logs. The debt is four thousand dollars. The fog is moving at two inches per hour. I am Elias Thorne, Border Warden, Third District. My father’s medical bills are due in six weeks. If I miss the cutoff, the bank takes the house. If the house goes, I go to the line. I check the compass. The needle spins. The northern pines are gone. Not cut. Gone. The snow where they...

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