The Distant Wound

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The Distant Wound

The soup was thick. It clung to the spoon, heavy and dark as wet soil, bubbling in the blackened pot that dominated the center of the long table. It smelled of iron and rot, a scent that had permeated the walls of the house until the very plaster seemed to weep. Margaret sat at the head of the table, her hands resting on the wood, still and pale. She was a scholar of old texts, a woman who had...

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