The Distant Joke

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The Distant Joke

The key was cold. It bit into Suzanne Thibault’s palm, a rusted thing she had pried from the desk of the man who owned her hours. She had dreamed of water again, the black, churning sardine gutters of the harbor rising up to swallow her, but now she was awake in the cramped room above the fish market, the air heavy with brine and rot. Her stepfather, Henri, was downstairs, boots on the metal...

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