The Wistful Dinner
The parchment was brittle, the ink faded to the color of dried blood, and it smelled of damp earth and rot. I held the writ in my hands, feeling the rough grain of the paper against my palms, while my father, Thomas Ashworth, stood in the doorway of our cottage, his face a mask of stoic resignation that I had spent forty years trying to decipher. He did not look at me; he looked at the road, at...
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