The Distant Metropolis

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The letter lay on the wet pavement, its ink bleeding into the gray slush, the words still sharp enough to cut if one knew how to read them. Elias Thorne picked it up, the paper slick and cold against his calloused palm, and scanned the itemized list of his father’s debts, a ledger of ruin that totaled four thousand dollars, a sum that weighed heavier than the granite blocks he had spent twenty...

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