The Pale Bonsai
The ink in your pen is not ink, but blood, and it seeps from the nib with a wet, crimson hiss as you sign the final report. Your name, Elias Thorne, stretches across the paper in a jagged, weeping line, the letters blooming into dark stains that smell of iron and old rot. You are forty-two years old, a border patrol agent with hands that have held rifles and ledgers, but today they hold only...
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