The Distant Wound
The candle gutters, spitting a black tear of wax onto the damp trench wall. I am Elias Thorne, thirty-two, a man who used to study the etymology of grief in warm libraries, and now I study the etymology of mud in the freezing dark of the Veldt border. My hand shakes as I write this, not from the cold, but from the fear that the State’s censors are already reading over my shoulder, their eyes...
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