The Faded Photograph

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The feast was a wound in the dark. Candles guttered in iron sconces, their flames trembling against the draft that howled through the shattered mullions of the hall. We ate from bowls of coarse clay. The meat was tough, the bread stale, but we ate. We had to. I looked across the table. My wife, Elara, sat with her head bowed. She did not eat. She watched the fire. Her eyes were wide,...

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