The Faded Frontier
The bus timetable lay open on the dashboard, its routes cut by a red marker that bled into the paper like a wound, and Homer Roudebush’s hands shook as he tightened the strap holding the diplomatic pouch against his chest. He was thirty-four, a border warden with twelve years of service, and the ink on the parchment inside the leather case was shifting, living veins pulsing beneath the surface,...
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