The piano from the speakeasy across the street bled through the walls of James Callahan's clinic like a heartbeat—steady, syncopated, refusing to let anyone forget that the world outside was still dancing while inside, people were still dying.
James set down his stethoscope and looked at the patient on his examination table. A young Black man named Elijah, twenty-three years old, who had been coughing blood for three weeks and had been turned away from every hospital in Manhattan because of the color of his skin. James had heard the stories from his time in the Argonne: the way the system created walls invisible but impenetrable, the...
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