The Distant Cartograph

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The left hand of your father, Thomas Ashworth, sat in your palm, the knuckles swollen and purple, the fingers curled in a permanent, silent spasm that you had come to read like a scripture. It was a heavy thing to carry, this dead weight of bone and skin, smelling faintly of the formaldehyde that had preserved it after the funeral, and you held it against the cold stone of the cellar step as...

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