The Golden Greenhouse
The glass panes were cold, each one a square of frozen water that did not reflect the light but swallowed it. I counted them. Twelve rows, eight columns. Ninety-six squares of silence. I was forty-two years old, and my hands, which had held rifles and handcuffs and the reins of a mule, were trembling against the iron frame of the Golden Greenhouse. The estate auction was in three days. If I did...
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