The Wistful Mountain
The white stag stood in the dark. Its antlers were not bone but jagged shale, catching light that did not exist. Elias Thorne woke with his mouth dry, the taste of coal dust on his tongue. It was 1912. The air in the bedroom was thin and cold, the kind of cold that settled into the joints and stayed. He looked at the bed. Clara was sleeping, her breathing shallow, a faint rattle in her chest...
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