The Golden Greenhouse
The bus smelled of wet wool and diesel, a pungent mix that coated the back of my throat as we rattled up the gravel road toward the Institute. I was nine years old, small for my age, and I held the brass key in my palm like a hot coal. It was a simple thing, a rectangle with a bow, but it felt heavy, dense with a gravity that had nothing to do with physics. My mother had given it to me that...
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