The Distant Joke

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The Distant Joke

Act I "Did you count the steps? I told you, seventeen. Not eighteen. The Tannery Steps are seventeen, Fiona, and if you miscount the inventory, you lose the shift." The voice of Hamish Grieve, the warehouse manager, hung in the hot air of the loading bay, heavy with the static of the heatwave that had lasted three days without a break. I stood by the pallet jack, my hand still on the handle,...

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