The Wistful Crossroads

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The rail strike had held for three weeks, turning the provincial town into a grid of stalled engines and idle men, where the air hung heavy with the smell of wet coal and rusted iron. In the storeroom of confiscated goods, Vasily Volkov sat on an overturned crate, his fingers tracing the cold edge of a silver brooch that had belonged to his late wife, Anna. The room smelled of mildew and old...

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