The Pale Bonsai
The house did not burn; it simply ceased to be, a sudden and total erasure of timber and plaster that left only a hollow square of scorched earth where our lives had once been anchored. I stood at the perimeter, my uniform crisp and white against the charred black of the ruin, watching the smoke curl into a sky that was indifferent to the magnitude of what had just happened. My name is Thomas...
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