The Pale Bridge
The wool of my mother’s cardigan, once the color of a bruised plum, had faded to the pale grey of winter ash, its fibers worn thin and frayed at the elbows and cuffs where she had gripped the railing of the stairs for thirty years. I held the garment in my hands, the heavy, pilling fabric warm from the dryer, and felt the ghost of her presence not as a spirit, but as a physical weight, a dense...
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