The Faded Bouquet
The count of hours was twenty-two, and the weight of the rifle in your hands was thirty-two pounds of dead iron and oak. You had been standing at the edge of the moor for six hours, waiting for the fog to thin, but it only thickened, a grey wool that smelled of wet stone and rotting peat. Your left hand, the one that had once steadied the trigger with the precision of a surgeon, now trembled...
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