The Wistful Dinner

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The parchment lay on the oak table, its edges curling in the damp air of the scriptorium, and Brother Thomas Bradshaw stared at the ink until the words blurred into a black smear. It was a simple ledger entry, written in the Abbot’s cramped, jagged hand: *To the Lord of Ashworth, five sacks of winter wheat, paid in full, delivered this day.* Thomas’s thumb pressed against the rough grain of the...

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