The Distant Wound

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The Distant Wound

The orchid is hungry, I said. I spoke to the leaves, to the fused veins in my own wrist, to the gray air that smelled of wet ash and old copper. I am Elias. I am thirty-two. I used to study how roots find water in the dark. Now I dig for it in the mud of the Sector 4 labor pits. The gray city does not have seasons. It has quotas. My quota was forty cubic yards of silt. I managed thirty-eight....

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