The Returning Quarry

Original fictional atlas illustration of masons and haulers working beside a stepped quarry, securing sandstone blocks with reversible teal clamps as one block moves back toward the rock face.

Original fiction. In the Returning Quarry, every cut block wants to go home, so masons build with joints that can be undone before the walls pull apart.

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The Returning Quarry

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