The Pale Bonsai

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The Pale Bonsai

The branch was cold in Elias’s hands, the bark pale as a dead man’s fingernail, weeping a thin, rust-colored sap that smelled of iron and old pennies. He held it over the linoleum floor of his kitchen, watching the drops hit the white surface with a soft, wet thud, each one spreading into a dark, intricate vein that looked disturbingly like a map of the border sector he had patrolled for...

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