The Distant Crown

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The Distant Crown

NOTICE OF EVICTION: The premises at 14 Marsh Lane are requisitioned for municipal use. Vacate within forty-eight hours. The clerk’s ink had smudged, a brown smear like dried blood on the paper, but Concepcion Valenzuela knew the price of those words better than the smell of yeast. She stood in the bakery, the air thick with the heat shimmer that rose off the ovens, a physical weight against her...

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