The Golden Farce

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The Golden Farce

The chisel bit into the plaster, and the dust tasted of lime and old blood. I was twelve, and my hands were shaking, not from the cold, but from the weight of the golden shard in my palm. It was a piece of the mosaic that had once covered the wall of the bathhouse, now a hollow shell behind the middle school cafeteria where I worked the morning shift. My father lay upstairs in the loom room,...

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