The Distant Threshold

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Fatima Mahfouz knew that the Ministry of Archives did not smell of paper, but of cold, dry dust and the metallic tang of fear, a scent that clung to the wool of her coat as she stepped from the taxi onto the cracked pavement of the medieval quarter. She was thirty-four, her hands rough from the work of an animal control officer, and she carried in her breast pocket a single, withered plant from...

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