The Distant Garden
The rain in 1912 did not wash the mud away; it merely made the earth slicker, turning the border road into a river of brown slurry that sucked at my boots with every step. I am Elias Thorne, forty-two years old, a sergeant in the Border Patrol, and I am currently holding a jar of preserved plums in my left hand while my right hand grips a rifle that feels heavier than it did a decade ago. The...
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