The Faded Photograph
The glue was drying before I could wipe the excess from the beak, a thin, white thread connecting the shattered head of the porcelain bird to the body, a bridge I was building over a chasm that would not hold. My hands, stained with the blue dust of the clockwork I had been dismantling that morning, trembled as I adjusted the angle of the neck, needing it to be perfect, needing it to be whole...
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