The Wistful Campus
The bread is stale. It has been stale for three days. You hold the crust in your hand, feeling the rough, dry texture against your palm. It does not yield. It resists. You are in the infirmary of St. Jude’s, a stone building that smells of wet wool and iron. The window is barred. The air is thick. You are twenty-two. You are dying. Or so they say. The doctor called it consumption. A wasting. He...
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