The Wistful Atlas
The stamp hits the paper with a weight that travels up your arm, settling in the teeth as a dull, rhythmic thrum. You count the forms: forty-two applications for permanent residency, forty-two lives waiting to be weighed against the new fiscal year’s austerity, and you are Elias, thirty-two, a clerk who needs his own status secured before the ink dries on the next batch. The northern routes are...
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