The Wistful Grid

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The Wistful Grid

The ink is wet. It bleeds into the fibrous grain of the page like a bruise forming under skin. I sit in the dark. The house holds its breath. Outside, the wind strips the bare branches of the old elm. They sound like fingers scratching against glass. I am eleven. I have always been eleven. Time is a circle here. It does not move forward. It tightens. I write to Mr. Thorne. He is my teacher. He...

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