By Jay Lonnquist | Storytelling, in Paragraph Proportions | 9 Nov 2020
Into a shallow hands-breadth bowl, it ladles a stew, still bubbling thickly.
The sensual stink of boiled meat and savoury herbs tickles the aching animal hunger long restive in Umin’s belly.
Without a stray sound, the waifish apparition sets the ladle aside, all movement eerily smooth and parsimonious. A supple porcelain doll.
It takes up a rough spoon, sinking it with matronly care into the opaque broth.
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