The Golden Master
The sterile, humming air of St. Jude’s Hospice did not smell of death, but of antiseptic and the faint, metallic tang of recycled ventilation, a scent that Elias had come to associate with the slow, bureaucratic erosion of time. He sat in the vinyl chair beside his mother’s bed, his eyes fixed on the rhythmic rise and fall of her chest, a motion that seemed increasingly labored, a mechanical...
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