The Wistful Voyage
My fingers were black with ink when I found the error. I had been balancing the winter accounts for the ferry district for three hours, the lamp oil burning low, the wick hissing a thin, dry sound that cut through the silence of the archive room. The ledger lay open, its pages stiff with age, two distinct handwritings scrolling down the column: my father’s cramped, urgent script and my own,...
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