The Wistful Silence
The smell of burnt sugar and damp wool hung heavy in the air of the St. Jude’s Orphanage laundry room, a thick, suffocating perfume that clung to the back of Gerald’s throat. It was November, the year of the Great Chill, and the steam pipes groaned like old men shifting in their sleep. Gerald, a man of forty-two with hands that had forgotten how to be soft, stood before the industrial mangle,...
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