The Golden Crossing
The city of Isfahan wakes before the sun, a grid of mud-brick and shade where the wind carries the dust of the old volcanoes. In the dye-houses along the Zayandeh River, the vats boil with pomegranate rind and indigo, the air thick with the weight of wet cloth and the smell of boiling bark. I am Gholam Nouri, overseer of the black dyes, and my hands are stained to the wrist with a pigment that...
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