The Distant Cartograph
The mud of the Somme did not smell of earth; it smelled of wet wool and copper, a thick, suffocating scent that coated the back of my throat and turned every breath into a labor. I stood in the trench line, my rifle broken across the stock, the wood splintered where I had tried to use it as a club against a sandbag that had collapsed under the weight of the rain. Above me, the sky was a low,...
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