The Golden Crossing
The brass nib of Silas’s pen scraped against the ledger, a sound like a mouse gnawing on dry wood, as he tallied the salted cod and the rotting timber that had come in on the *Gull’s Eye*. He was forty years old, though the wind off the harbor had aged him to sixty, and his hands, which had held the border for two decades, now trembled with a fatigue that sleep could not cure. On the desk...
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