The Pale Dance

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The Pale Dance

The ink on my fingers was the color of dried blood, a rust that would not wash away no matter how many times I scrubbed with lye and hot water. It seeped into the whorls of my skin, a permanent brand of my office in the high tower of the Ministry of Records. I am a clerk, a man of little consequence, whose days are measured not by the sun but by the ticking of the great clock in the atrium, a...

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