The Pale Bonsai

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The Pale Bonsai

Elias. The voice came from the fog, a thin reed pipe of sound that cut through the damp chill of the morning. It was not a name, exactly, but a summons, a hook in the back of the neck. I was forty-two years old, a gardener in the city of Ostra, where the air tasted of wet ash and old iron. I stood in the center of the greenhouse, the glass panes fogged over with condensation that ran down in...

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