The Faded Portrait
The banquet hall of the St. Jude’s Municipal Infirmary smelled of boiled cabbage and industrial detergent, a pungent, chemical sweetness that clung to the back of the throat like a persistent memory one could not scrub away. It was a room designed for efficiency, not comfort, where the fluorescent lights hummed a low, electric B-flat that seemed to vibrate in the marrow of the bones, and in the...
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