The Distant Ghost

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The Distant Ghost

Chapter One To the Sheriff of the Olive Estates, regarding the seizure of lands: The well-digger Rafael Bermejo is hereby detained for the crime of treason, his assets frozen pending the survey of the soil. The water in the cisterns had turned to dust three days prior, a fact that the surveyors noted with the dry indifference of men who had never known thirst. Rafael stood at the edge of the...

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