The Faded Frontier
The porridge had been cold for three days, a grayish mound in the chipped enamel bowl that sat on the edge of my bunk like a stone. I did not eat it. I watched it. The air in the barracks was thick with the smell of wet wool and the metallic tang of old blood, a scent that had seeped into the very fibers of the uniforms we wore, making us all smell like the earth we were supposed to be...
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