The Pale Mist

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The Pale Mist

I scrubbed the algae from the pool’s edge, the squeegee scraping a thin, white line into the green water. The damp plaster of the walled city seeped into my boots, a cold fact that grounded me in the 1990s, in Lahore, where the causeway drowned twice a day. I was Asim Tareen, thirty-two, and my hands were raw, the skin splitting at the knuckles from the chlorine and the grit. I needed the wage....

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