The Wistful Asylum

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Your fingers are stained green to the second knuckle, the sap of the dying wisteria seeping into the whorls of your skin as you pry the last brittle pod from the branch. It is November, and the air in the asylum’s central courtyard is thick with the smell of rotting vegetation and damp wool, a cold that settles in the joints and refuses to leave. You are thirty-two, a botanist by training and a...

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