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Out of Order

by Catherine Morrow

A bureaucrat, an ex, a closing window: Maryam has one hour to decide how much she trusts a man who always has a flight to catch.


*Out of Order*

She knows it's him before he says her name, because David always pressed his thumb into his own palm when he was about to take something he wanted.

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