The Faded Road

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The Faded Road

The soup was always red. It sat in the center of the long oak table, a heavy ceramic bowl, steaming gently in the cold air of the hall. The color was deep, arterial, unchanging. It did not smell of beef or tomato. It smelled of iron. Of old pennies. Of blood drawn from a vein and left to cool in a glass. I held the bowl. My hands were steady. They had to be. If I trembled, the liquid would...

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