The Pale Exile
The jar sat on the windowsill, a heavy, squat vessel of green glass that held no wine, no jam, no water, but only the silence of the room and the dust that settled on its rim like a fine, grey snow, and I remember how my mother used to polish it every Sunday with a cloth that was too large for her hands, her fingers trembling not from age but from the sheer, terrifying weight of the task she...
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