The Distant Affair
The train rattled over the iron rails, a grinding sound that matched the grinding of your own teeth as you clutched the leather satchel to your chest. You were forty-five, Elias, and you had twenty-two years of service in the Ministry of Records, a tenure that should have guaranteed a comfortable retirement by the end of the fiscal year, provided only that a single clerical error in your...
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