The Distant Threshold
The boy’s left hand was the size of a small, pale bird, and it was trembling on the edge of the stainless steel counter in the intake room, where the air smelled of industrial disinfectant and the faint, sweet rot of old paper. He was twelve years old, which was an age that sat awkwardly between the safety of childhood and the cold weight of adulthood, and he knew, with a certainty that felt...
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