The Distant Metropolis

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Chapter One Item 4: Antimony, diluted, 200 grams. Sold to Baron Rinaldi. Payment: 40 lire. Concetta Grieco woke with the taste of iron in her mouth, the dream of the shattered glass vial still humming in her teeth. Doctor Salvo was dead. He lay in the corner of the counting room, stiff and cold, his face grey as the unlit sky beyond the window. The weight of the town’s quarantine protocols now...

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