The Distant Threshold
The ink is still wet on the skin of your hand, a dark, viscous stain that smells of iron and burnt sugar, and you are trying to wash it away with lye soap in the cold, grey water of the institutional sink. You scrub until the skin beneath your nails turns raw and pink, until the pain is a sharp, clean thing that cuts through the fog of your exhaustion. The stain does not leave. It has moved...
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