The Faded Sutra

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The Faded Sutra

Who could have hidden a sacred thing in the gutter of a ledger? Fernando Gomes found it on a Tuesday, tucked between the accounts for lamp oil and the quarterly reports on herring yields. The page was soft, the ink faded to the color of dried blood, the script a cramped, vertical scrawl that looked less like writing and more like the frantic scratching of a trapped bird. He was forty years old,...

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