The Distant Joke

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The Distant Joke

Elias Thorne’s fingers, stained black to the second knuckle, worked the rusted latch of the intake ledger, the metal cold and gritty against his skin, scraping away the accumulated grime of three weeks in the debtors’ block where the air tasted of sulfur and damp wool. He was thirty-four, a man whose face had been worn down by the friction of scrutiny, and he stood in the corridor of the...

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