The Pale Bridge
The Ministry of Memory did not smell of dust, as one might expect of an archive, but of ozone and wet slate, a scent that clung to the wool of my coat and the lining of my eyelids. I was thirty-two, a Senior Archivist, and I had spent the last five years ensuring that the records of the dead were not merely accurate, but perfectly, surgically silent where they needed to be. My sister, Clara,...
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