The Wistful Ashes

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The Wistful Ashes

Could the silver brooch still be warm from the body? Danuta Zielinski woke with the taste of burnt wool in her mouth, the dream of flames fading into the grey light of the sleep bay. She was forty-two, a textile inspector for the Bureau, and the evidence locker was empty where her mother’s brooch should have been. The audit began at dawn. The air in the corridor smelled of damp plaster and old...

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