The Wistful Mountain
The dream is always the same. You see the face in the rock, not carved but grown, the stone shifting like wet clay to form eyes that are hollows and mouths that are chasms. It does not scream. It whispers, a sound like gravel shifting in a dry riverbed. You wake in the narrow cot in the boarding house, the air thick with the smell of unwashed wool and coal dust that settles in the lungs like...
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