The Distant Wound

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The Distant Wound

The bread was stale. Not the dry, crumbly stale of age, but the heavy, dense stale of a body shutting down. Leo held it in his left hand. The crust was dark, almost black, like the soil in the backyard where the frost had not yet broken. He was seven years old. He stood in the kitchen of the house on Elm Street, the only house that remained standing in the gray quiet of the town. The windows...

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