The Pale Bonsai

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The Pale Bonsai

You hold the branch. It is dry. It is white. You snap it over your knee. The sound is like a bone breaking in a quiet room. It was raining in the valley. The rain did not fall. It hung. It was a gray curtain woven from steam and iron dust. The factory had been dead for three years. The smokestacks stood like broken teeth in the jaw of the hill. You walked through the mud. Your boots were heavy....

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