The Wistful Petal

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The Wistful Petal

Behind the loading bay of the Park Street warehouse, where the Oxford canal's black water pressed its face against brick the colour of dried blood, there stood a tree that had no business surviving. It was a plane tree—Platanus orientalis—its bark peeling in great parchment patches like the skin of some ancient serpent shed and shed again across three centuries. The industrial estate had grown...

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