The Wistful Dinner

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Downriver, the water ran high and brown, swallowing the roots of the cypress trees that lined the levee in a silent, muddy row. The air smelled of sulfur and wet earth, a heavy scent that clung to the clothes of every worker walking toward the match factory gates. Honoré DeClouet, forty years old and bent by the weight of his own history, stood at the end of the line, his wrist exposed to the...

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