The Golden Song
The count was always the first thing, the weight of the day measured in shovels before the sun had fully cleared the ridge of the quarry. Forty-two years old, I had learned to measure my life in the same way the warden measured my labor, by the volume of rock I could move before my lungs burned. I wanted only to finish the sentence, to walk out the gate and never look back, but the morning meal...
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