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City of virtue

Fiction: I wanted her to sit. Her standing made me nervous. Would I be able to stand after the session? Just like that, just like her. So easy. You will fall. Fall! I thought of Mumtaz again: she was so quiet when we met the first time. She was hiding everything that happened.

City of virtue
Image by Shishir Bhattacharjee, originally published Oct 2010

"How much more?" 

"Seven minutes"

"Go to Mumtaz," I told the young editor, "let's cut her short." 

"But she is good. She works."