The Faded Sutra
The coat was heavy. It smelled of damp wool and old tobacco. It hung on the hook by the door of the boarding house in Chicago, a dark, silent beast waiting for a master who was no longer there. I kept it. I washed it. I mended the tear in the elbow with thread I bought from the corner store, thread that matched the color of bruised skin. My brother, Elias, had worn it. He had died in the mill....
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