The Pale Meridian

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The Pale Meridian

The apple was soft, yielding to the pressure of my thumb until the skin split and the juice ran down my wrist, cold and wet as blood, pooling in the crease of my elbow while I stood in the damp, coal-choked basement of the St. Jude’s Asylum, staring at the floor tiles that were cracked and stained with the residue of decades of spilled medicine and human waste. I was thirty-four years old,...

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