The Faded Dust

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The Faded Dust

You dream of the smell of iron and wet paper. In the dream, the words on the page bleed out like bruises, darkening the margins until the ink is all that remains. You wake in the narrow bed of your Ministry dormitory, the air thick with the scent of dust and old vellum. It is November, and the fiscal year ends in twelve days. You need the pension. You need it to keep your mother’s heating on...

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