The Wistful Saga

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The Wistful Saga

The spoon scraped against the bottom of the tin cup, a sound like a fingernail on a slate roof, and I watched the black sap cling to the metal, thick and sweet-smelling, refusing to drain away. I was thirty-two years old, a border constable with twelve years of service logged in the ledger, and I wanted my pension more than I wanted my breath. I needed the arrest report filed, the "Ghost of the...

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