The Distant Nightmare

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1904. The coal dust settles in the lungs of the town like a fine, grey snow that never melts. I wake with the taste of rust in my mouth. In the dream, Clara’s hand is on my shoulder. It is not the hand I remember from her childhood, soft and pale from lack of sun. It is swollen, the skin translucent, the knuckles distorted into jagged peaks of bone. I reach out to touch it, to steady myself...

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