The Wistful Mirror
Ismail Syamsuddin stood before the shuttered window, his breath fogging the glass, and asked himself a simple question: what is left to hold when the hands begin to fail? The air in the room was thick with the dust of old paper, a dry, chalky grit that settled in the creases of his palms and the corners of his mouth. He was forty-five years old, a municipal archivist in the shadow of the harbor...
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