The Distant Nightmare

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The island grinds its rice into white powder, the mill race running low against the silt, while the sleet hammers the path to the distillery in sheets of ice. I am June Gault, thirty-two, and I keep the watch at the stills, my hands numb inside the wedding shawl my mother dyed the wrong shade of red. The water level is contested, the landlord’s son, Thomas, standing by the sluice gate with his...

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