The Wistful Petal

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The Wistful Petal

Roman Cerny, thirty-two, a border guard, found his father’s name stamped in red ink on a requisition order for a new iron gate. It was a bureaucratic error, or so the clerk claimed, but the ink was fresh, wet, and smelling of iron filings. I wanted a transfer to the southern district to escape the brutal winter, but the stamp marked me as a target. Inspector Hradec knew. He always knew. The...

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