The Distant Crown

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The Distant Crown

Act I "You’re the one who signed the ledger for the rice terrace, are you not?" The question hung in the air, heavy as wet clay. I stood in the side room of the marriage registry, the paper brittle under my fingers. Outside, the north wind was stripping the last leaves from the cypress swamp, a sound like tearing cloth. I am Pilar Echevarria. I am a scribe. I am thirty-two years old, and I am...

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