The Distant Summer
The tremor starts in the knuckles first, a fine, high-frequency vibration that travels up the radius and into the shoulder, and you are holding a vial of morphine steady against the light to check the sediment when the glass cracks. It does not shatter; it simply splits down the middle, clean and sharp, and the morphine leaks out in a thin, amber thread that pools on the steel tray, smelling of...
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