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0171: They Called It Mercy

作者: FlyingDove
last update 公開日: 2026-08-18 02:10:16

BENJAMIN'S POV

The reports were three deep before the light came, and I was already at the desk waiting on them. Border patrol. Harvest requests. Two families still going at each other over eight yards of grazing their grandfathers went at each other over, because in twenty years not one of them has managed to sit in a room together and finish it.

My coffee went cold around half five. I drank it anyway. That's the job — a child dies and the grass keeps growing and the fences keep coming down an
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