The Distant Summer
The ledger showed four hundred and twelve strikes of the chisel since dawn, a number Elias Thorne kept in his head with the same precision he applied to the mixing of lime and sand, for in the soot-choked air of 1912, where the smoke from the textile mills hung like a grey shroud over the valley, every blow against the limestone of the Blackwood Chapel’s east window was a debt paid to time, and...
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