The Distant Promise

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The vial was cold in my palm, the glass sweating condensation that tasted of copper and old blood. I held it up to the fluorescent light of the break room, watching the amber liquid swirl, thick as honey. My sister, Clara, was in Bed Four. She was wasting away, her skin pulled tight over the architecture of her bones, a state the board called metabolic stagnation. I am Margaret Holloway, a...

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