The Distant Garden

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The fog did not smell of rain or rot, but of wet paper and iron. Elias Thorne stepped off the bus, his boots crunching on gravel that seemed to dissolve into the mist before he could register the sound. He was forty years old, and his heart, a battered engine of valves and scar tissue, thumped a arrhythmic warning against his ribs. He needed the pension. He needed the money to pay for the...

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