The Pale Bonsai

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The Pale Bonsai

One, two, three. Silas counted the hours in the dream, the way a man counts coins in a dark room, each one heavy and cold. The fruit in his mind was not an apple or a pear but something larger, a melon of rot, splitting open to reveal a wet, black interior that smelled of iron and old sweat. He woke with the taste of decay on his tongue, the ceiling of the guardhouse staring back at him with...

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