The Faded Dust

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The Faded Dust

The notice on the desk was a thin strip of cardstock, the ink faded to a bruised purple, listing the assets seized under the Emergency Agricultural Stabilization Act of 1932. Werner Becker read it three times, the paper trembling slightly in his grip, before he slid it into the manila folder that held his entire life. The smell of the archive hit him first, a dry, acrid scent of decaying lignin...

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