The Faded Portrait
The fern in the window of the fourth-floor accounting office was dying, or perhaps it had already died and was merely performing the act of dying for the benefit of the glass, its fronds curling inward like the hands of a beggar who has forgotten the word for help, and I watched it with a intensity that would have seemed deranged to any of the junior clerks who passed by, their shoes squeaking...
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