The Faded Paradox
The dream was always the same: a hand, trembling, pressing down on a shatter of glass petals. Elias Thorne woke with the phantom weight of the orchid in his palm, the scent of rot thick in the stale air of his bedroom. He was fifty-two years old, a retired forensic botanist, and in three days, the town council of Oakhaven would vote on his permanent exile from the community’s green spaces. The...
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