The Pale Bonsai

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The Pale Bonsai

The ink was still wet when the warden first noticed it. It sat in the corner of my ledger, a smudge of black soot that looked less like a mistake and more like a wound. I had been writing the names of the dead. Not all of them. Only the ones the city had forgotten. In the old quarter, where the cobblestones were slick with perpetual damp and the air smelled of rotting cabbage and coal, we did...

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