The Golden Greenhouse
The brass nameplate on the oak desk had been polished until it was nearly invisible, a smooth, golden smear where Edward Ashworth’s title used to reside. It was a physical absence, a wound in the wood that caught the light from the high, dust-moted windows of the Bureau of Internal Standards. For thirty years, Edward had held this space, this authority, this golden mark of his identity. Now, he...
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