The Distant Garden

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The soot in Oakhaven did not fall; it settled, a thick, grey fur that choked the light and coated the tongue. It was November, 1912, and the wind off the river carried the smell of wet coal and rotting paper. I am Elias Thorne, forty-two years old, a Reader, a man who trades in the secrets of the dead for the coin of the living. I want the deed to my father’s house back from the bank by Friday,...

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