The Golden Mirror
The brass telescope had sat on the mantelpiece of my father’s study for forty years, its lens clouded with a haze that no amount of polishing could ever quite lift, a permanent cloud that seemed to live inside the glass itself rather than upon its surface. I remember the weight of it in my hands as a child, the cold bite of the metal against my palms, the way it felt less like an instrument of...
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