The Faded Dust

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The Faded Dust

Ray Priddy, forty-two, woke with the taste of black ash on his tongue, a grit that felt like ground coal, and the first thing I did was reach for the iron pot on the stove to check the heat. The village of New York, or what passed for one in the outer boroughs of this delta, was waking up too, the sound of the season's coal being offloaded from the barge thrumming through the floorboards like a...

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