The Distant Cartograph

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The ink bled into my thumb as I pulled the sheet from the rubble, a dark stain spreading under the salt-crusted skin. I was twelve, and the wind off the flats was sharp enough to cut, but the cold was nothing compared to the weight of the debt hanging over our house. My father’s cough had turned wet and red three days ago, and the doctor’s bill sat on the kitchen table like a dead bird, its...

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