The Distant Metropolis

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The fog in the city of Oakhaven did not lift so much as it surrendered, a slow, gray exhalation that clung to the cobblestones and the soot-stained brickwork of the municipal buildings. It was November of 1893, a time when the air tasted of coal dust and impending winter, and I walked the long, echoing corridors of the City Hall with a weight in my chest that had nothing to do with the cold. I...

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