The Wistful Grid

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The Wistful Grid

"Thomas. Thomas, come here." The voice was Mrs. Gable’s, thin and dry as a leaf pressed in a book. I stood up from my bench in the refectory. The bread was stale, the crust hard enough to chip a tooth, but I did not look at it. I looked at the boy in the corner. Arthur. He was new. His skin was the color of old parchment, stretched tight over bones that was moving underneath. He was coughing, a...

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