The Pale Bonsai
The ledger on the desk was not a book of numbers. It was a skin. Thomas Vane sat in the center of the grey room, the fluorescent lights humming a low, sick note against his temples. He was a man of fifty-two, with hands that had once been steady enough to stitch a torn hem with a needle as thin as a hair, but now they trembled with a fine, persistent vibration. Before him lay the object of his...
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