The Wistful Letter
14 November 2023. I have counted the stitches on my mother’s wool coat, twelve in total, frayed at the elbows where the damp has rotted the thread, and I have weighed the silence of the croft against the weight of the promotion letter that sits in my pocket, a paper shield against the cold that seeps through the stone walls of this house where Margaret has spent fifty years watching the mist...
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