The Golden Song
The bird did not sing. It screamed. A high, thin shriek that tore through the humid air of the city like a needle through wet silk. Leo was twelve. He was standing in the alley behind the meatpacking plant on 4th Street. The smell of rotting offal was thick in his nose. It was the smell of survival. Or perhaps the smell of defeat. He could not tell anymore. The sun was setting, a bruised purple...
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