The Distant Threshold

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2026-08-23 00:35:03 -

14th October, 1923. The leather case of my drafting compass lies open on the table, its brass arms splayed like the legs of a dead insect, and I am packing my final set of pencils, the lead worn down to nubs that will not last the journey. I am leaving Oakhaven because my mother’s cough has turned a wet, rattling thing that shakes the walls of our cottage at night, and the debt for her medicine...

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