The Wistful Ashes

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The Wistful Ashes

The notification arrived on a Tuesday, three days before the quarterly purge, and it was not a letter but a chime, a sharp, digital vibration that cut through the silence of my office like a blade. I am Elias Thorne, Senior Archivist at the Ministry of Memory, and for twenty years I have catalogued the lives of those who no longer exist. My brother Julian died six months ago, classified by the...

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