The Faded Root
October 14, 1998 The dream was not of my mother’s face, but of her hand, which I held in the dark of the archive basement. The skin was not skin, but layers of decaying paper, the fibers fraying at the knuckles, the nails made of brittle, yellowed cardstock that crumbled as I tried to squeeze. I woke with the sensation of pulp in my palms, the smell of oxidized iron and dust hanging heavy in...
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