The Distant Metropolis

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2026-08-18 03:28:20 -

The bread had been rising in the clay bowl for three days, its surface taut and pale as the skin of a drowned man, and I watched it swell against the grain of the table where my father sat with his head bowed in a prayer that seemed less like devotion and more like the grinding of teeth in the dark. The air in our kitchen was thick with the scent of yeast and iron, a metallic tang that coated...

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