The Faded Sutra

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The Faded Sutra

Act I NOTICE TO ALL RESIDENTS: The Tax Boat arrives early this year. All debts, including rolled-over loans, are due upon docking. No extensions will be granted. The water is high. You hold the scroll in your hands, the paper brittle as a dried leaf, and the heat presses against your temples like a wet towel. It is noon in the chawl, that impossible, suffocating hour when the sun hangs directly...

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