The Pale Bonsai

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The Pale Bonsai

The year was 1348, and the air in the city of Bruges smelled of sulfur and rotting lilies. Elias, a glassblower of forty years with hands stained permanently gray from the silica dust, stood before the cooling oven in his workshop, staring at the pale, twisted shape that had emerged from the ash of his apprentice, Thomas. The boy had died three days prior, his lungs filled with the black...

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