The Faded Guest

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The Faded Guest

The mud of the Ypres salient did not soak; it swallowed. Thomas Bradshaw, twelve years old and no larger than a sack of flour, felt the earth rise around his ankles like a slow, black tide. He was not a soldier. He was a scribe, a clerk’s son pressed into the machinery of war because his hands were steady and his silence was reliable. The primary desire that drove him through the churning...

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