The Lantern Question
The Lantern Question
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Every lamp in the old quarter goes out at 3:14 in the morning and comes back at 3:15. It has happened four hundred and six nights running. The city has decided this is normal. One clerk in the lighting office has decided it is not.
Imogen Vale
Writes cities. Two finished, one abandoned on purpose.
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