The Wistful Ashes

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The Wistful Ashes

The light in the Bureau of Civic Harmony was always the color of old milk, a flat, yellowish wash that seemed to drain the warmth from the faces of everyone who entered. "You are late, Mrs. Milburn." The clerk did not look up from his ledger. His pen scratched across the paper with a rhythmic, dry sound, like a mouse gnawing on a wire. I stood in the queue, my shoes sticky with the coal dust...

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