The Golden Greenhouse
The brass badge felt cold and heavy in my palm, its edges worn smooth by years of thumbing, a small, metallic lie I had carried for twenty years. I held it up to the light of the checkpoint, watching the dust motes swirl in the beam, each one a tiny, suspended grave. It was 1994, and the air smelled of burnt rubber and dry sage, the scent of a border that had never truly closed. I was Elias...
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