The Wistful Silence
The soup is black. It is thick as oil. It smells of burnt sugar and iron. You are standing in a kitchen that does not exist. The tiles are checkered in slate and bone, stretching out into a fog that has no horizon. A single window looks out onto a city of smokestacks, but the smoke rises downward, pooling on the invisible street like gray snow. You are an old man. Your hands are steady. You...
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