The Pale Bonsai

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The Pale Bonsai

The letter from the Faculty Board lay on the mahogany desk, its seal broken, the ink still damp with the bureaucratic weight of dismissal. You read it twice, the words blurring not from tears but from the dry, papery smell of the office that had seeped into your pores over three days of isolation. Your tenure review was suspended. The reason cited was "unstable conduct and academic delusion."...

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