The Distant Threshold
Karl Schwarz pressed his thumb against the wax seal of the unopened pay packet, the brittle red crust cracking under the friction of his sweating palm. He was thirty-four, and the air in the Ministry corridor tasted of copper and damp wool, a humidity that settled in his alveoli like silt. Outside, the January thaw had turned the orchards into a slick, treacherous geometry of mud and broken...
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