The Wistful Dinner

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The pomegranate cracked open before the sun had fully cleared the loess cliffs, its red juice bleeding onto the white silk tablecloth like a wound that refused to close. I remember the smell of burnt sugar first, a cloying, artificial sweetness that hung in the air of the caravanserai’s break room, masking the metallic tang of the blood on my husband Rostam’s lips. He lay on the floor, his face...

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