The Faded River

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The Faded River

The soot of 1912 had a taste, metallic and sharp, like sucking on a penny that had been left in the rain. I spat it into the mud of the riverbank, my left hand locked in a rigid, bone-white pillar that extended from my wrist to the tips of my fused fingers, a constant, aching reminder of the fever that had taken the rest of my mobility but not my life. I was Elias Thorne, a border patrol...

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