The Faded Photograph
The soup was thick. It smelled of iron and old pennies. I stirred it with a spoon that had no bowl, only a twisted stem of bone. "You are late, Sergeant," the man said. He did not look up from his desk. The desk was mahogany, black as a bruise. It swallowed the light. "I am here, Sir." "Here is not the same as present. Presence requires attention. You are absent." I looked at the soup. It...
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