The Distant Nightmare
The river had stopped making a sound. It was a dry year in the valley, and the water rights were the only currency that mattered. Yelena Gevorgyan sat in the nursery of her father’s old house, the room now stacked with sacks of hoarded grain. She was thirty-four, a dye-house overseer, and her hands were stained indigo to the wrist. On the table before her lay a ledger. It was a thick thing,...
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