The Pale Path
Giuseppa Aiello remembered the weight of the bread long after the hunger had left her, a phantom heaviness in her wrists that persisted through the warm, unsettling spell of November. She was twelve, small for her age, and the Pale Path was not a road but a causeway of white stone that drowned twice a day in the mist rising from the rice valley below. The village elders called it the throat of...
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