The Wistful Letter

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"Return by dusk or the shadow takes the rank." Khalid Farah wrote the words in the margin of the stock ledger, the ink bleeding into the cheap paper as the fluorescent lights hummed their low, electric hymn. He was thirty-two, a captain in the court of the dead, though the court was now just a hospital waiting room with linoleum floors that peeled like old skin. The rule of the palace was...

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