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+The wind carried the smell of rain across the valley, and the last light of the afternoon lingered on the hillsides.
+She opened the ledger and began to read, though the words had been written in another hand many years before.
+It was not the first time the old clock had stopped, but it was the first time anyone in the house had noticed.
+By morning the market would be open again, and the quiet of the night would be traded for the noise of the day.
+He counted the steps twice, once going up and once coming down, and each time he reached the same impossible number.
+The letter mentioned a debt, a storm, and a key, but said nothing about when either of them might return.
+Water pooled in the hollows of the flagstones, reflecting a sky that had gone the color of slate.
+Every spring the same argument resumed in the kitchen, about the garden, about the fence, about the neighbor's dog.
+The librarian placed the book on the cart with the others, then, after a moment, slipped it back onto the shelf.
+Somewhere above the roof a bird called twice and fell silent, and the whole street seemed to listen.
+The telegram was short, and the handwriting that accompanied it was shorter still, but the meaning took years to arrive.
+At the far end of the harbor a single lamp burned green, marking the channel that no ship had used in a decade.