The Distant Threshold

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The island of Sainte-Lucie breathed in the rhythm of the gas meter’s tick, a dry, wooden clicking that underscored the labor of ten thousand hands stripping cane. The air smelled of wet sulfur and rotting sugarcane, a pungent, sweet decay that clung to the skin and the lungs. Renard Fontenot, fifty-four and trembling with the effort of staying upright, stood in the queue for his oxygen...

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