The Distant Joke

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The Distant Joke

The quota is three hundred memories, but the intake is clogged and the seeds are dying in the dark. I stood before the desalination plant’s rusted gate, the soot of the city settling on my shoulders like a second skin. The light was failing, that heavy, yellowish gloom that hangs over Budapest when the air turns to paste. I held the cracked porcelain mirror, a shard of the old world, and it...

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