The Faded Road
The bell tolled for the final shift. My hands shook as I held the ladle. The broth was cold. It had been cold for an hour. I stirred it anyway. The spoon scraped the bottom of the pot. A sound like a bone breaking. I am not a man. I have never been a man. I am something else. Something that feeds on the silence between the chimes of the clock. They call me Arthur. It is a lie. A kind, necessary...
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