The Faded Bouquet

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The Faded Bouquet

The mortar ground the last of the moonpetal, a sound like dry bones breaking in the dark. Roelof Mulder’s hands, stained violet from the crushed seeds, moved with the mechanical precision of a man who had spent thirty-two years measuring out death in grams. Outside the shuttered window of his attic shop, the wind off the canals whipped the shingle beach into a frenzy, stealing the pebbles the...

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