The Distant Wound

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The Distant Wound

The memo lay on the desk, its edges curling slightly in the dry heat of the radiator, the ink sharp and black against the cheap, fibrous paper. It was a formal notification of a performance review, scheduled for the spring audit, but the language was a trap, heavy with the weight of bureaucratic expectation that promised nothing but the slow erosion of one’s dignity. I smoothed the corner of...

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