The Distant Affair

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Can a debt be paid with a life? Nirmala Dutta asked the question to the air, her voice thin against the roar of the cicadas that screamed from the locked gates of the ancestral courtyard. The heat was a physical weight, pressing down on her shoulders as she wrung out a cloth in the bucket of tepid water, her hands raw and red from the friction. She pressed the damp linen to her younger...

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