The Wistful Asylum

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The soup was cold. It sat in the ceramic bowl, a grey sludge of turnips and carrots that had lost their color hours ago. I stared at it. The surface was still. No steam rose. Just the faint, oily sheen of rendered fat. I did not eat. I waited. The house was quiet. Too quiet. The wind pressed against the windowpanes, a low, constant moan. I am a sergeant. I have spent thirty years holding the...

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