The Distant Affair

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The string quartet plays a waltz that sounds like tearing cloth, and you stand at the edge of the square, holding the envelope in your left hand. It is thick with the weight of paper, but light in the way that only things of immense consequence can be. You are Elias Thorne, fifty-two years old, and the senior archivist for the city of Harrowgate. For thirty years, you have cataloged the past,...

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