The Wistful Grid

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The Wistful Grid

The ink had dried into a crust of black scab on the nib of my pen, a dark fossil of my own hesitation, and the parchment before me lay flat and white as a sheet that might one day cover a body, while outside the high, narrow windows of the counting house the rain hammered against the leaded glass with the frantic, desperate rhythm of a thousand small fists beating to be let in or to be let out,...

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