The Pale Bonsai
The scalpel was cold, heavier than it looked, its edge worn dull from years of cutting bark and sinew. You held it in your right hand, the metal biting into the calluses you had built up over thirty-four years of tending the glasshouse at Ashworth Botanicals. The glass hissed around you, a low, industrial drone that vibrated in your teeth. Your father, Arthur, sat in the wheelchair by the north...
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