The Distant Joke

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The Distant Joke

The fog did not roll in; it bit. It clung to my coat like wet ash, whispering names I had buried three years ago. I am Elias Thorne, thirty-four, a city marshal in a metropolis where the air has teeth and the streets remember every lie told upon them. My duty is to keep the peace, but the peace here is a thin veneer over a pit of rot. I want my name back. I want the ghost who framed me for...

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