The Golden Farce

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The Golden Farce

The feast was a lie. I knew it the moment the bread was broken, the crusts hard as stone and the air thick with the smell of burning tallow. We were twelve in the hall, the village elders and their kin, gathered to celebrate the winter solstice, but no one looked at the table. They looked at my father. He sat at the head, his face gray and hollowed, his breath a rattle like dry leaves...

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