The Distant Cartograph

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The surveyor’s chain lay cold in my hands, its links slick with the damp that seeped from the cellar floor, and I watched the black mold pulse against the oak beams like a bruise forming under skin. "It is spreading, Elias," my father said from the doorway, his voice thin as the paper I held. "Stop measuring. Let it be." I did not look up. The inheritance was worth forty thousand pounds, a sum...

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