The Wistful Cipher

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The scale in the precinct’s basement room weighed exactly four ounces of gray powder, the same weight as a silver dollar, the same weight as the silence that had settled over my lungs for the past six months. I recorded the measurement in the ledger, the ink bleeding slightly into the coarse paper, while the draft from the ventilation shafts whispered against the cold brick, a sound like dry...

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