The Distant Whispers

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The leather of the surveyor’s compass was cracked, the brass face fogged with my breath. I held it tight in my left hand, the weight of it a cold anchor against the heat rising from the salt crust. My father walked three paces ahead, his boots crunching a rhythmic, dry beat that sounded like breaking bones. We were walking the flats, that white expanse of nothing that stretched out to the...

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