The Distant Metropolis
The letter lay on the scarred oak table, the ink faded to a rusty brown, the paper brittle as dry leaves. Elias Thorne, forty-two years old and stiff with the particular ache of unpaid men, smoothed the corner with a thumb that trembled not from age but from the cold seeping through the floorboards of his one-room apartment. It was a notice of termination, or perhaps a reassignment, the...
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