The Pale Meridian
The bread was already cracked when the warden handed it to her, a pale, dry thing that smelled faintly of chalk and old dust, and Margaret held it in her hands as if it were a fragile bird, feeling the heat of the stone table seep into her palms, the rough texture of the crust rough against her skin, a texture she had known for thirty years in this place, a texture that had become so familiar...
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