The Wistful Witness

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Wen Lin stood in the doorway of the excise office, the rain hammering the tin roof above him, and I knew then that my life had narrowed to a single, wet thread. The air in the room smelled of damp wool and old ink, a smell that had settled into the wallpaper over forty years of quiet neglect. I was thirty-two, an excise man, a title that made neighbors cross the street and children spit on the...

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