The Compliant Love

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The Compliant Love

Act I

The New Order Republic did not forbid love. It regulated it.

There was a difference, and Minister Shen understood it the way a mathematician understa

The Confession

I am writing this in a bookstore in Brooklyn because that is what I do now. I open the shop at...

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The heat in July was the kind that pressed down on you like a hand. Not the clean heat of a...

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The Cold Water

The water from the tap was cold. It was always cold. Edith put her hands under the stream and...

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The ship smelled of death. Not the clean death of a flower that has fallen from a stem but the...

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The rain in London did not fall; it wept. It clung to the soot-stained bricks of Kensington and...

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