The Distant Garden

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Mud. Fernand Etienne knew the specific weight of it. It was a thick, cold paste that sucked at his boots with a suction like a dying lung, pulling the ground down into itself. He was thirty-four years old, a garrison officer with a limp in his left knee from a fall in the Vosges, and he was currently digging a hole in his own front yard. The north wind cut across the Auvergne plateau, a...

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