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The Kitchen Table Archive(KTA) · 001 · Text

The first winter

From
Example contributor
When
2016
Place
Kreuzberg
Language
EN
Themes
Arrival, Neighbours

This is an example of a story in the archive. It shows how a longer text reads on its own page, with room to breathe and nothing else around it.

The coat was two sizes too big and smelled of someone else’s kitchen. I wore it every day that winter. The woman from the third floor had left it on the handle of my door without a note, and when I tried to thank her on the stairs she only nodded at my sleeves and said they would do.