The Distant Summer

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2026-08-23 07:20:42 -

The fever broke at four in the morning, leaving me with a mouth full of copper and a throat that felt like I’d swallowed a handful of gravel. I counted the seconds between the ticks of the hallway clock, one, two, three, until the sound faded into the white noise of my own ragged breathing. I am forty-two years old, which feels like a lie in the narrow cot at St. Jude’s Home for the Aged, a...

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