The Pale Dance
The bread was white. Not the pale, dusty white of poverty, which tastes of chalk and resignation. This was a blinding, aggressive white. It sat on the wooden table in the center of the room, a loaf of sourdough so fresh the steam still curled from it like a ghost refusing to leave the body. I looked at it. I looked at my father. He was sitting in the armchair, his back straight, his hands...
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