The Distant Joke
The letter arrived on a Tuesday, printed on heavy cream stock that smelled of dust and old paper. It did not ask for an explanation; it demanded one. Elias Thorne, forty-two, senior auditor at the Meridian Insurance Bureau, read the words three times before the reality of them settled into his bones like a cold draft. The firm had detected a discrepancy in the Q3 portfolio audits, a variance of...
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