The Golden Crossing
The oar handle was slick with sweat and river silt, the wood worn smooth by fifty-two years of grip, and Elias Thorne held it with a strength that felt borrowed, as if the muscle itself were a guest staying past its welcome in the house of his body. He was rowing the ferry across the Blackwater, the mist hanging so low it seemed to rest on the water’s surface like a wet wool blanket, and in his...
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