The Wistful Asylum

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The banquet hall of the St. Jude’s Municipal Asylum for the Aged and Indigent was not designed for joy, but for the efficient consumption of calories by bodies that had been forgotten by the world outside its high, stone walls. On this particular Tuesday, however, the air was thick with the cloying sweetness of over-ripe pears and the sharp, metallic tang of cheap wine, a festive atmosphere...

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