The Distant Joke
Act I Jean-Baptiste Sonier stood in the staff room of the closing school, the air heavy with wet plaster and old tobacco, his hands shaking so badly he could not steady the vial of Moon-Salt. He was thirty-four, a memory librarian for a council of shifts that cared nothing for his quota of repairs, and he had come here to hide from the frost that was creeping up the bayou. The spring flood was...
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