The Distant Machine
The dream came first, as it always did in the wet dark of my mind. I saw the emerald brooch, the one my mother wore until the fever took her, not resting on velvet but sinking into my chest. It did not cut; it melted, the green stone becoming blood, becoming bone. I woke with my hand pressed to my sternum, expecting to feel the weight of it, but there was only the thin cotton of my nightgown...
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