The Faded Sutra
The ink on the page is still wet, a dark, viscous smear that refuses to dry, much like the stain on my left forearm that has grown since last Tuesday. It is the winter of 1924, and the air in the St. Jude’s Asylum for the Mentally Deficient tastes of boiled cabbage and antiseptic, a thick, suffocating perfume that clings to the wool of my dress. I am thirty-two years old, and I am here to watch...
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