The Wistful Crossroads

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The letter lay on the desk, the paper thick and rough, smelling of the cheap tobacco Elias Thorne had chewed for twenty years. He read it twice, his thumb rubbing the edge of the envelope until the fiber frayed. It was a standard pension calculation, forty-two years of service at the border, and the number at the bottom was enough to buy a small house in the hills, a place with no wind and no...

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