The Distant Joke
The soup was red. Not the deep, comforting maroon of a slow-simmered braise, but a thin, arterial crimson that wept onto the white tablecloth. You watched it spread, a stain that looked suspiciously like a wound. In the old days, in the village where the fog rolled in from the sea and the houses leaned together like tired old men, you would have called it blood. You would have known it was...
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