The Distant Temple

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The letter lay on the wet stone floor, its ink blurred by the damp that seeped through the cracked foundation. Phyllis Fairweather picked it up, her fingers stiff and swollen, the joints screaming a protest that had grown louder with every winter since her fiftieth birthday. She read the bureaucratic syntax, the polite denial of her request for structural reinforcements, and felt the cold...

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