The Wistful Cipher

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My hands were deep in the mud of the cypress swamp when the first drop of hail struck my shoulder, cold and heavy as a coin. I was digging for a bone, or perhaps a lie, but the earth gave up nothing but the wet, sucking resistance of the bog. The light before the storm was greenish, a bureaucratic hue that marked the hours for the oxygen permits, and I knew I had four minutes before the...

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