The Wistful Asylum

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Institutions are not built to hold the soul, but to grind it down. Romain Mire stood in the cramped office at the St. Jude’s Institute, the air heavy with damp plaster and old paper. He held the draft of his monograph on institutional ethics, the pages soft and worn from too many re-readings. His tenure depended on this work, yet the empty envelope on his desk served as a colder reminder than...

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