The Distant Ghost
You hold the bowl. It is cold. The ceramic is thin, cracked along the rim like a riverbed in drought. You do not eat. You wait. The soup is a broth of marrow and bone, dark as midnight, swirling with the residue of the mill’s grind. It smells of iron. It smells of the old world. It smells of the ghost you cannot name. The town of Oakhaven sits in the valley of the Ash River. The air is thick...
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