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Borrowed Tomorrows

Ke_le
Meridian is only one city on the map, but it’s the one that taught the world a terrible rule: lifespan can be owned, traded, taxed—and seized. I’m a junior clerk in the Department of Temporal Revenue—the Clockhouse—raised on one religion: the ledger is impartial. Then an impossible file lands in my queue. Not a criminal. Not a politician. Just a man whose account reads wrong in a way the system shouldn’t allow. When I look closer, the ledger charges me time for noticing—without a receipt, without an appeal. Now my own balance is bleeding in silent withdrawals, and a “verification” I can’t see has started following my name through the city. If I want to keep my life, I’ll have to do the one thing a clerk is never trained to do: Make the books lie.
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