The Faded River

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The Faded River

The air in the archive room did not smell of dust or decaying paper, but of ozone and wet stone, a scent that clung to the back of my throat like a swallowed pebble. I sat at my desk, the fluorescent lights humming a low, sick tune above my head, sorting files that no longer existed in the physical world. My name was Arthur, and I was a clerk in the Department of Retrospective Memory, a...

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