The Wistful Grid

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The Wistful Grid

The porcelain locket in my palm is cold, colder than the iron rails that vibrate beneath my boots as I stand on the edge of the Blackwood Pit, watching the steam rise from the ventilation shafts in a grey, suffocating curtain that chokes out the stars. I am thirty-four years old, and the world has narrowed itself to a single, desperate necessity: I must secure the mining lease for the Blackwood...

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