The Distant Garden

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The ledger was open in Elara’s hands, its pages not paper but a thin, translucent skin that yielded to the pressure of her thumb. She held the quill, the ink wet and warm against the nib, and the sound of the asylum was a low, constant hum of pipes and distant coughing that seemed to vibrate in her teeth. It was 1924, and the St. Jude’s Municipal Asylum smelled of boiled linseed oil and old...

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