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Three foil-covered dishes appear on the porch of a house nobody local will buy. There are no footprints in the snow around them, and nobody knocks twice. The family inside has been in town for one day.

A governor is handed a bill he cannot pay, so the stranger who saved his city names a different price: one hundred and thirty of his people. The governor agrees in a single word, and never asks what they are for.

A dead man sits across the table pleading with her to put a coat over her head and say something she has never told anyone, so that he can spend an hour with the woman who froze to death waiting for him. She is running out of secrets.

A building with opinions rattles its cupboards to break up a kiss, because there are two dozen pies still to bake and a clock that needs painting. The inn has a reopening tomorrow, and it has decided nobody is getting distracted tonight.

Two men crouch beside a running bath tap in a Tehran embassy compound, one Russian, one British, speaking just loudly enough to be heard over the water. What passes between them will reshape a revolution.

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