The Faded Masquerade
The vial is cold against your palm, a small, glass eye staring up at you from the sterile white sheet. You are twelve years old, and your hand does not shake, though your father’s chest rises and falls in a rhythm that is losing its war against the air. The room smells of bleach and old iron, a scent that has seeped into your clothes, your hair, the very pores of your skin. You whisper, "It’s...
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