The Distant Journey
The cough does not come as a symptom but as a rupture, a violent, wet tearing in the back of your throat that forces you to turn away from the stove where the pot of bone broth has been simmering for six hours, its surface trembling with the heat of your labor. You press a handkerchief to your mouth, and when you pull it away, it is no longer white but a deep, arterial red, the blood soaking...
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