The Pale Bonsai
The jar shattered. Glass sprayed across the kitchen tile. Red juice bled into the grout. I stood in the center of the ruin. My hands were empty. The smell of pomegranate hung in the air. Thick. Sweet. Acrid. It was a smell that tasted of iron. I looked at the shards. They caught the morning light. Each fragment held a tiny piece of the red. A trapped universe. A collapsed star. I am a man of...
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