The Wistful Crossroads

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The ink was cold. Elias Thorne counted the drops as they fell from the nib, one, two, three, into the well of the brass fountain pen. He needed the chart finished by the first frost, that was the deal, twelve shillings a day plus lodging, or his pension would vanish into the provincial ledger like smoke. The valley of Oren’s Hollow sat before him, a bruised purple under the low sky, the river...

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