The Faded Quadrant

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The leather hung in strips, stiff and black with the smell of lye and rot, and I was picking the teeth from the bone of a ox’s jaw when the cold started. It began in the stump of my left arm, a sharp, biting frost that had nothing to do with the damp cellar air. I looked down at the rag wrapped tight around my shoulder. The pain was there, a phantom ache, as if the hand that had been cut off...

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