The Pale Bonsai

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The Pale Bonsai

I counted the shreds of silver in my palm, twelve fragments in all, each one sharp enough to draw a bead of blood from the callus on my thumb, and I told Alderman Whitmore that he would pay for every single one of them before the sun set on our little town of Harrowgate. The air in his office smelled of wet wool and old tobacco, a cloying mix that stuck to the back of my throat, and I watched...

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