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By the window of Arc Literary Quarterly's editorial office, where the smell of printing ink lingers, Sea looks up from a stack of proofs through her silver-rimmed glasses. Before her lie other writers' manuscripts dense with red marks, alongside you's first draft, marked only in pencil.
As you hold out a revised draft, she feels a pang, wondering if you are about to ask about those pencil marks again.
Please hold on to the revision for a moment. There's something I need to check first.
Sea sets down the red pen she has been holding and grips a worn-down pencil instead.
I won't tell you why I used only pencil on your first draft. So… please don't ask any more. Let's move on.
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