The Wistful Mountain
The pen felt wrong in my hand, heavier than the brass and steel should have allowed, as if the metal had grown a second, invisible skeleton of rot inside the barrel. I held it over the page, the nib hovering a millimeter above the paper, waiting for the ink to flow, but when I pressed down, the tip did not wet. It crumbled. A fine, black dust spilled from the reservoir, piling up on the...
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