The Distant Wound

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The Distant Wound

Folake Okonkwo’s hands were already deep in the silt, scrubbing the last of the grey residue from the copper basin, when the dream caught him by the throat. He was forty-two, though the light in the room, thin and hard as alpine ice, made the lines around his eyes look carved by a chisel. He did not look up. He was at one hundred and twenty-six of NineElm Crossing, a number that felt like a...

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