The Faded Paradox
The count was simple, though the arithmetic of my life had long since collapsed. Forty-three years of service. Five thousand, two hundred and forty days on the force. And now, in the sterile white light of the pension board’s waiting room, I had seven days before they stripped the last of it away. My left hand lay on the polished oak table, the skin tight and grey, the knuckles swollen like old...
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