The Distant Promise

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The fog does not smell of sulfur, as the miners claim, but of wet wool and old copper. It sits heavy in the throat, a cold that has nothing to do with the November air and everything to do with the lie you are telling. Arthur Vane stood at the edge of the lease, his boots sinking into the black mud that marked the boundary between the town of Oakhaven and the deep earth. He was thirty years...

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