The Wistful Petal

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The Wistful Petal

"Sign here, June. And here. The ink is dry before the debt is clear." I stood in the parlor, the air smelling of wet wool and old paper. My sister Elara sat in the corner, her leg wrapped in bandages that had gone grey with damp. She was twenty, and the rot had started in the heel. It was spreading fast, eating the bone. I wanted the graft. I needed the bone-graft that would stop the leg from...

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