The Distant Threshold

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The ledger lay open on the kitchen table, its spine cracked and yellowed, smelling of iron and damp wool. My father stood over it, his shoulders hunched as if carrying a sack of coal that had never been put down. He was a clerk for the Northern Railway, a man of small habits and larger silences, and he had been shaking since the telegram came. I was twelve, old enough to know that the winter...

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