The Wistful Asylum

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The bread is stale. You know this. You can taste the dryness in the back of your throat, a rough, papery grit. It is not hunger. It is absence. You stand in the alley behind the slaughterhouse. The rain slicks the cobblestones. They shine like black oil. You are cold. Your coat is thin. It is not enough. Captain Hale steps out of the shadows. He does not run. He walks. His boots click. The...

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