The Distant Affair

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The broth smelled of iron and old rain. I stirred it with a wooden spoon, the wood worn smooth by generations of hands that were no longer there to feel the heat. In the village of Oakhaven, the soup was not merely food. It was a covenant. It was the visible proof that the living still spoke to the dead. Every evening, as the fog rolled in from the moor, I would ladle the grey, thick liquid...

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