The Distant Joke

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The Distant Joke

The letter from the Department of Internal Affairs lay on the desk, the ink still wet and bleeding slightly into the cheap paper, a small black stain spreading like a bruise under the fluorescent light. You read it twice, the words blurring not from fatigue but from the sudden, cold pressure in your chest, a weight that felt less like emotion and more like a physical object settling into your...

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