The Faded Bouquet

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The Faded Bouquet

The black spot on Brother Elias’s thumb was the size of a lentil and as hard as a stone. It did not hurt, which was worse than pain. It sat there, a dark coin pressed into the flesh of his right hand, the hand that had spent thirty years grinding wormwood and drying sage for the infirmary. Above him, in the high choir of the Abbey of St. Jude, the silence was not empty but heavy, filled with...

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