The Distant Journey

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Chapter One Gladys Stroud had been dead for three days when the ledger finally stopped moving. She remembered the weight of it, the heavy, damp cloth of the airlock maintenance uniform she’d worn on her last shift, the way the slide rule tapped a rhythmic, hollow beat against the desk in the exam hall as the harbor master, bribed with a single tin of preserved plums, signed the final permit. It...

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