The Distant Nightmare

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The ink on my palms did not wash off. It had been there for three days, a dark, viscous stain that smelled of iron and old rain. I tried soap. I tried pumice. I tried the harsh scrubbing brush that lived in the sink of the apartment I shared with Clara. The black remained. It mapped the lines of my hand like a river delta, a topography of guilt I could not erase. Clara looked at my hands every...

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