The Wistful Atlas
The letter from the mine office was thin, the paper soft with age, and the ink had smudged where Halloway’s thumb had pressed it. I read it twice, the words blurring into a grey smear that matched the fog rolling off the Blackwater River. It said my claim for compensation was denied. It said my lungs were my own, not the mine’s. It said I was to return to the shift tomorrow or be struck from...
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