The Pale Bonsai
The Pale Bonsai I. The Conservatory The glasshouse rose from the Surrey heath like a fossilized breath—skeletons of wrought iron laced with fogged panes, half swallowed by bramble and time. Arthur Penhaligon found it on a Tuesday, the sort of dull Tuesday that only a man who had outlived his purpose would notice. He was forty-seven then, though the mirror had long since stopped obliging. His...
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