The Distant Joke

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The Distant Joke

The dream was always the same: a room of white paper, and the letters of Martha’s name dissolving into gray mist before my eyes. I woke with the taste of iron in my mouth, the year 1893 pressing against the windowpane like a cold hand. I am Elias Thorne, forty-five years old, a clerk who has forgotten how to be anything else. My wife, Martha, is legally nowhere. The town registry lists her as a...

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