The Faded Apartment

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Act I Kartika bin Ali held the ledger tight against his chest, the paper rough and damp with the chill that rose from the cellar of the shophouse on Seventeen of NineElm Crossing. He was thirty-four years old, and for twenty of those years he had stood at the border gate, counting heads and checking stamps, but the Bureau now claimed his hands were too unsteady to trust with a seal. The tremor...

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