The Faded River
The stone in my left pocket was cold enough to bite through the wool of my trousers. I pressed my thumb against the fabric, feeling the jagged edge of it, a relic from the riverbed where we had buried the dead. I was forty-two, and my hands shook not from age, but from the vibration that seemed to emanate from the stone itself. I needed the pension. Clara’s lungs were filling with fluid, and...
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