The Pale Bonsai
The dream is always the same: my fingers, those long, delicate instruments of cataloging, turning to gray powder in the palm of my hand, drifting away like ash from a snuffed candle. I wake with the scent of sulfur and old paper clinging to my skin, the sheets twisted around my legs like vines. I am Elias Thorne, forty-two years old, and I am afraid of my own hands. I look at them, flexing the...
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