The Faded River

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The Faded River

The list was scrawled on the back of a requisition form, the ink smudged by the humidity that clung to the stone walls of the infirmary. *Flax. Salt. Clay.* I stared at the last word, the letter *y* dragging down the page like a wound. I was forty-two years old, a scribe in the sealed monastery of St. Jude, and I had not slept in three days. My mother, Margaret, lay in the corner, her lungs...

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