The Distant Garden

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Edna Gault’s hands were already black with coal dust when the foghorn blew, a low, wet groan that the stray dog at the edge of the hollow answered with a sharp, confused bark. She was knee-deep in the mine’s lamp room, a place where the air tasted of sulfur and old sweat, prying a rusted valve free from the main line. The dry wind had been cracking the clay outside for three days, turning the...

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