The Golden Crossing
The bread began to rot on the second day, not with the mundane grey mold of neglect, but with a vibrant, pulsing gold that smelled of burnt sugar and old blood, and I knew, with a certainty that felt like a physical blow to the sternum, that my mother’s life was now tethered to the decay of my own craft. I was the Royal Baker to the High Court, a title that had once meant prestige and now meant...
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