The Pale Bonsai

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The Pale Bonsai

You keep the shop clean, or you try to, scrubbing the dust from the glass counters until your knuckles are white and raw, a ritual that has become the only prayer you know. The year is indistinct, a gray smear on the horizon where the memory of the war should be, leaving behind only the echo of boots on cobblestones and the smell of cordite that has seeped into the plaster of the walls. You are...

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