The Distant Affair

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Hua Zhu was thirty-four years old, and he had just been promoted to Senior Archivist of the River County, a position that came with a ceremonial seal of bronze, heavy enough to bruise the palm if held for more than a minute. The smell of the archive was the first thing that struck him, a dry, papery scent mixed with the damp rot of the river mud that seeped through the floorboards during the...

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