The Pale Bonsai

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The Pale Bonsai

The rain hit the cobblestones like a drumroll for a funeral that had already happened. I held the bonsai against my chest. Its branches were black, twisted things, like the fingers of a drowned man. The water soaked through my coat. It was cold. Not just wet. Cold. The kind of cold that settles in the bones and refuses to leave. I am an investigator. Or I was. Now I am just a man in a city that...

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