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Germophobe

Short Story

“We’ve talked about this before, you know. It’s a specific topic, to be sure, but we have gone over this,” he told her.

“I remember,” she said, fixating on her usual gaze-avoidance object, a scanned, printed copy of Van Gogh’s ‘The Garden of the asylum at Saint Remy.’ A painting by which Grace had felt myriad feelings toward since she’d started therapy with Tomas. At first it was amusement, until…