The Distant Threshold
The bone was wrong. It sat on the steel table, cold and pale. A metacarpal. Small. Human. I held it between my thumb and forefinger. The knuckle was fractured. Not broken by a fall. Not broken by a blow. It was shattered from within. The cracks were fine as hair. They radiated from the center of the joint like the spokes of a wheel. I placed it in the evidence bag. My hands shook. The station...
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