She’s captured her dreams in a Mason jar, boiled and sealed. When Genji holds it up to the lamp she can just make out shapes: distortions, birdlike, beating against the glass.<\/p>\n
“I can give you seventy dollars,” says Genji, and the woman across the counter tightens.<\/p>\n
“You can’t do eighty,” she says, unable to make it a question.<\/p>\n
“Seventy,” says Genji, as gently as she can.<\/p>\n
They trade. Genji opens a low cabinet to stack it with the others.<\/p>\n
“I’ve got thirty days,” says the woman, “to buy it back?”<\/p>\n
“That’s right,” says Genji, but they never do, they never do.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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