The Distant Garden

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The sap was black, viscous, and smelled of iron. I wiped it from the baseboard with a rag, my hands trembling not from cold but from the weight of the document in my pocket. I am Elias Thorne, forty-two, a border warden with twenty years of service, and I have been trying to secure my pension for the last six months. The pension is not money. It is the house. I just did not know that yet. I...

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