The Faded Guest

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The Faded Guest

The letter from the Department of History lay on the desk, the ink still wet, the tone bureaucratic and final. *Your tenure review is pending the completion of the Blackwood Catalog. Failure to submit the index by month’s end will result in termination of appointment.* Elias read it twice, the words blurring into a gray smear. He was forty-two, an archivist of middling reputation, and he needed...

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