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Nocturne with a Dictator


 The landowner’s gin is spiked with ash from burned sorghum. All day the field blazed—a red tide.He woke in a sweat. Thatched roofs of the workers sprayed down with hoses steam, the tendrils of smoke, citrine in the evening.His eye traces th [...]

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