The Distant Wound

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The Distant Wound

The train whistle cut the silence like a knife through wet wool, a sharp, singular note that echoed off the corrugated iron of the freight cars. Elias Thorne stood on the platform, his coat buttoned to the chin, watching the steam rise in the cold November air of 1924. He was thirty-two, a border warden with ten years of service etched into the lines of his face, and he was here for one reason:...

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