The Distant Ghost

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The Distant Ghost

The question that haunts the waking hours is simple, yet it has grown teeth: how does a man repair a life when the mortar is already gone? Ahmad Hassani sat on the edge of his narrow bed, the damp cold of the room seeping through the thin wool of his tunic, and watched the steam rise from the cup of chicory he had not yet touched. He was thirty-two, a municipal inspector in a city of stone and...

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