The Pale Exile

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The Pale Exile

The air in the walled city tasted of ozone and wet ash. Usman Siddiqui woke with the taste of stone in his mouth, his fingers tangled in the damp sheets of a bed that smelled of mildew and the old, stale perfume of his late wife. It was the third day of the strike vote, a fact that hung over Lahore like a low, grey ceiling, pressing the breath out of the lungs of every mail clerk and oxygen...

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