The Distant Ghost

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The Distant Ghost

Roxana Hosseini had lost the use of her left leg before the winter froze the wells, a fact recorded in the ledger of the silk cooperative with the same dry indifference as a missing bolt or a broken loom. She lay in the triage tent, the air thick with the copper taste of blood and the sharp, boiled scent of instruments, while Dr. Rostam, a man whose coat was stiff with dried mud, inspected the...

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