The Distant Garden
The air in the sterile, fluorescent-lit lobby of the municipal planning office tasted of ozone and stale coffee, a metallic tang that coated the back of my throat as I watched Margaret Holloway pack her life into a cardboard box, her movements precise and mechanical, like a surgeon removing a tumor she had long since decided to let grow. We were leaving, or rather, I was leaving, because the...
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