The Pale Garden

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The Pale Garden

The mortar was cold, the texture of wet clay, and Yiannis Christodoulou’s hands, stained the color of bruised plums, ground the dried berries against the stone with a rhythm that had worn the surface smooth over twenty years. He did not look up at the Queen, who lay in the high bed, her breath a shallow rasp in the stagnant air, but his devotion, a heavy, physical weight in his chest, pulled...

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