The Golden Greenhouse
The shears bite into the stem with a sound like a bone snapping, and you watch the golden sap bead on the blade, sticky and warm as blood. You are twelve years old, and your hands are already stained to the wrist with the dark, viscous fluid of the dying orchid, the *Cattleya aurea* that Mr. Thorne calls the Heart of the House. The glass walls of the St. Jude’s Botanical Institute hum with a...
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