The Wistful Grid

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The Wistful Grid

The ink in my pen is still wet, yet the air in this office smells of charred paper and something sweeter, more cloying, like rotting lilies. I am writing this by the light of a single gas jet, the flame trembling as if the room itself is holding its breath, while I sit before the municipal ledger that has just made me a man. Three weeks ago, I was a clerk with a trembling hand and a debt that...

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