The Golden Cellar
The dream was not a vision but a hemorrhage. Brother Thomas woke with the taste of copper on his tongue, the phantom weight of Margaret’s severed hand pressing against his chest. It was a relic of the plague year, a piece of flesh he had buried in the garden to keep her from rotting in the common ditch, yet in the dream it was whole, warm, and demanding payment. He sat up in the narrow cell,...
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