The Distant Temple
March 12, 1998 I dreamt the key was a tongue. It hung in my mouth, rusted and heavy, tasting of iron and old blood. I tried to speak, but the metal chewed through my gums, and when I woke, my hand was clamped around it in the dark, the knuckles white and aching. It is a small thing, a rusted iron key from my father’s estate, the only object he left that wasn’t sold to pay for the funeral. But...
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