The Golden Scar

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The Golden Scar

The plastic shard sits in my palm, cold and sharp against the callus of my thumb. It is a fragment of the Gilded Veil, a sliver of translucent polymer that used to be part of my left forearm. I stare at it until the fluorescent lights of the holding cell blur into a white smear, the hum of the ventilation system rising in my ears like a high-pitched scream. My mother’s dialysis costs four...

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