The Wistful Throne
The light in the station was the color of old milk, thin and sour, hanging low over the stone trough in the scullery where we washed the blood from our boots. I remember the glare off the ice field that morning, how it burned through the single pane of glass in the window, making the shadows of the racks jump like living things. We were supposed to be retiring. That was the deal, the quiet one,...
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