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New Short Fiction: “L’esprit de L’escalier” by Peter M. Ball …

… is over at Apex! Huzzah!  And it totally got io9’d! Double huzzah!!

Rat opens the double doors and the stairwell smells of baking, the air thick with dull warmth and the smell of yeasty dough. He wrinkles his long nose and wonders if it will be like this for the entire way down, or if the doughy stink will gradually
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