The Distant Journey

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The soup was cold. It sat in the metal basin on the counter, a grey, unappetizing sludge that smelled of boiled cabbage and old pennies. Margaret stared at it. She did not smell the rot. She smelled the iron tang of the floor. Who put that there, I asked, my voice sounding thin in the high-ceilinged room. The cook, a woman named Ellen, wiped her hands on a rag that had been clean once. She did...

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