The Distant Joke

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The Distant Joke

The rain did not fall so much as it hung in the air, a grey curtain that smelled of wet concrete and old diesel, blurring the neon signs of the district until they bled into long, sickly streaks of red and blue. I stood under the awning of a shuttered bodega, my hands trembling not from the cold but from the vibration of the glass jar clutched in my left palm. Inside the jar, suspended in a...

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