The Faded Bouquet

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The Faded Bouquet

The ivy on Elias Thorne’s hands was not a decoration; it was a sentence. The vines, thick as a man’s finger and black with the absence of sunlight, had crept up his wrists in the night, tightening with a slow, hydraulic patience that cut off his circulation. He sat in the warden’s office at Blackwood Asylum, the rain lashing the high, barred windows, and watched the green tendrils pulse against...

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