The Distant Threshold

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The bread was black. Not merely darkened by the hearth’s soot, but a void in the shape of a loaf, dense and cold as a stone pulled from a riverbed. I held it in my gloved hands, the leather cracked from the damp, and watched the steam rise in thin, ghostly ribbons before dissolving into the ceiling beams. It was the only food we had. The only medicine. The only thing that kept the fever from...

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