The Pale Echo
The dust in the cellar tastes of iron and old rain. You know the taste. It coats the back of your throat, gritty and cold, a persistent reminder that the earth is still here, breathing under the floorboards of the house you can no longer afford to keep. You are Margaret. You are fifty-two, and your hands are raw from scrubbing the grime off the windows of the bakery where you work the night...
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