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

Act I — The Teacher Henri Laurent woke up in a room that was not his. The bed was hard, the...

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The atelier was filled with the scent of turpentine and dying lilies. Outside, the streets of...

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The rain came in sheets that night, the kind of Cornish downpour that turns the world to water...

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I. The rain in Brooklyn does not fall—it descends. It comes down in sheets, cold and indifferent,...

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The Number Game

I used to write about who was wearing what to the opera and which socialite had eloped with which...

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