Fiction

The City of Sadness

No one can stop the tears. And no one knows why.

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Artur Debat/Getty Images

No one recognized what was happening at first. With the state of the world, no one was particularly surprised or alarmed. People had begun to burst into tears on the sidewalk, dissolve into sobs in the midst of a sales meeting, a first date, a ride on the subway. And who could blame them, really? Even my…