The Wistful Cipher
The spoon was black, not with soot, but with a lacquer that seemed to absorb the light of the kitchen where I stood, a kitchen that no longer existed, a place of white tiles and the sharp, medicinal scent of camphor that my mother used to stir into the tincture for my seizures. I woke with the taste of iron on my tongue, the phantom weight of the silver handle still resting in my palm, and the...
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