The Wistful Asylum

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March 14, 1998 The letter lay on the desk, the paper yellowing at the edges, smelling faintly of the lemon oil I used to polish the archive shelves. It was a standard tenure review, the kind that arrives like a bill for services rendered, demanding a signature that binds you to the institution for another five years. I stared at the signature line, the ink of the pen I held trembling slightly,...

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