A Kiss For Every Bruise
But inside, something was missing, gnawing at me like an open wound.
Until a year ago, in the Far East. The healer had been an old man, blind in one eye, with hands that trembled only when idle. He called himself Liang. I had gone to him out of desperation, after every psychiatrist and neurologist failed to fill the gaps in my memory. He spoke little English, but his needles did the talking.
Each session was agony. Memories clawed their way back in bursts of pain and clarity, the smell of the sea, Gwen’s laughter, the curve of her handwriting on love notes she used to leave under my pillow. And then, the night of the ambush replayed in excruciating detail.
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