The Distant Promise

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The letter from the Blackwood Institute lay on the desk, its paper thick and cream-colored, smelling faintly of dust and old glue. It was a termination notice, but not for my employment. It was a notice of non-verification regarding the final box of my father’s journals, Box 404-B. The text was sterile, a grid of checkboxes and bureaucratic language that reduced a lifetime of obsessive care to...

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