The Wistful Mountain

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Pension Claim Form 44-B. Status: Denied. Reason: Clerical error, 1908. Minh Phuc stood in the office of the Postal Annex, the paper trembling in her hand, while the light from the high windows fell in slants of dust across the floorboards. She was thirty years old, a clerk at the Saigon Postal Annex, and she needed the money to pay for her brother’s funeral, a cost that had been mounting like...

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