The Distant Garden

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The ink was in the whorls of Elias Thorne’s palms, a black tide that no amount of scrubbing with lye and hot water could lift. He stood before the mirror in the staff bathroom of the Municipal Archive, staring at his own hands, which looked less like flesh and more like stained parchment. It was his final day of service, twenty years of dust and silence, and all he wanted was to finish the...

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