The Distant Threshold

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Marguerite Hubert pressed the bone comb against the wet hair of the ferryman’s daughter, her fingers working through the tangles with a brutality that surprised them both. The girl, no older than ten, sat rigid on the stone bench, her eyes fixed on the sideways rain that lashed the rice terrace. It had been raining for a week, the water turning the acid lakes of the Auvergne into a churning,...

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