The Pale Bonsai
The demolition order lay on the dashboard, the paper yellowed and brittle from the heat of the engine block, and Bertram Wexford held the pen with a grip that felt more like a vice than a human hand. He was forty-two, a border patrol officer whose career had calcified into a series of signatures, each one a small, precise death of something he could no longer name. The final line waited, a thin...
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