The Distant Cartograph

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The mortar was heavy, a solid block of black stone that felt less like a tool and more like a dead weight I had to carry in my hands. I ground the dried thyme, counting the strokes, one for every hour I had left in this flat, two for every year my mother had spent in London, three for the distance between here and the village where the soil used to smell of rain instead of coal smoke. The air...

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