The Faded Bouquet

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The Faded Bouquet

The laundry ropes stretched across the Naples backstreet like the strings of a broken harp, snapping taut in the dry heat that never broke. The air smelled of wet wool and rotting figs, a heavy scent that clung to the throat. I was twelve, standing on the fourth floor of the Rizzo building, watching the world below ignore us. My name is Immacolata, though the neighbors only called me the...

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