The Golden Circuit
The feast was a wound in the dark. We ate. We drank. The hall was thick with the smell of roasted lamb and the sweeter, rotting scent of my mother’s hands. She held the ladle. She held the spoon. She held the edge of the table as the floor shuddered. Her fingers were stained with grease and old blood. Not fresh blood. Old blood. The kind that dries black and flakes off like rust from a plow...
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