The Wistful Mountain

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My hands were black with graphite, the lead of the surveyor’s pencil snapped clean in half as I tried to mark the contour line on the vellum. The paper was damp, swollen with the mist that clung to the valley floor like a wet woolen shroud. I wiped the graphite from my fingers on my trousers, leaving a dark smear against the rough wool, and looked up at the peak. It was not a mountain in the...

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