The Distant Journey
The rag in your hands is soaked through, dark and heavy with a fluid that refuses to behave like water. It pools on the white linoleum, spreading in a slow, black tide that smells of copper and old earth. You are twelve, and your brother, Thomas, sits at the kitchen table, his face a mask of pale flesh and red ruin. The blood does not clot. It flows from his nose in a steady, unbroken stream,...
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