The Wistful Crossroads
The bread did not rise. It sat in the tin, heavy and cold, a gray slab of failure. My brother looked at it. He did not look at me. The city hummed outside. A low, electric thrum. We lived above the mill. The machinery never stopped. It ate the grain. It spat out the dust. The dust was in our lungs. It was in the walls. It was in the bread. I was twelve. My hands were small. Too small for the...
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