The Distant Whispers

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The air in the Hall of Records did not smell of paper or dust, as one might expect, but of wet iron and the faint, sweet rot of old lilies, a scent that had settled into the very grain of the oak desks where I had sat for the better part of a decade. I was a clerk of the third class, a man whose existence was measured in the ink on my fingers and the ache in my lower back, a life so narrow and...

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