The Distant Nightmare

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The bottle was brown glass, squat and heavy, smelling of turpentine and something sweet, like rotting peaches. I held it in my left hand, the one that didn’t shake, while my right hand counted the copper coins on the kitchen table. Eleven dollars. That was the cost of my mother’s freedom. The ledger at the Harlan Company store said I owed twelve, but if I could pay eleven now, the interest...

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