The Distant Wound

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The Distant Wound

Thorne. The voice that called me across the deck was not my father’s, nor my mother’s, but the sharp, clipped bark of a Bureau clerk standing at the gangway, holding a ledger that smelled of wet ink and coal dust. He did not look at me; he looked at the stamp on his form, a red circle of rejection that had followed me from London to the edge of the world. I was forty-two years old, a...

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