The Distant Threshold

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The dampness in the cellar of Ashworth House does not smell of earth, but of old copper and rot. You are forty years old, a physician by trade and a son by blood, and you have spent the last three days kneeling on the cold stone, pressing your stethoscope to the chest of your dying mother, Eleanor. Her hand is clamped around a withered rowan branch, her knuckles white and swollen, holding it...

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