The Pale Bonsai

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The Pale Bonsai

Waqar Siddiqui was twelve in 1914, and I was already tired of the smell of rust. It sat in the back of my throat, metallic and cold, a taste I could not spit out. My mother’s silver brooch had begun to bleed. Not sweat, not tarnish, but a thick, black fluid that seeped from the prongs and stained my pillow white with dark spots. I woke to the dampness against my cheek, the fabric clinging to my...

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