The Distant Metropolis

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The letter from the Department of Human Resources lay on the kitchen table, its edges curling slightly in the dry heat of the radiator. Elias Thorne held the pen, a cheap Bic with a cracked cap, and hovered over the signature line. The form requested a medical evaluation before finalizing his pension claim, a bureaucratic hurdle that felt less like a procedure and more like a noose tightening...

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