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Elisabeth Synesael

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Smoke overeaction

Families can burn. No really, they can. I see it now, as I sit at the table. Cards are being dealt, slid across the surface until they meet their rulers. I sit between my cousins, their matching auburn hair distracting my peripheral vision as I try to train my eyes upon the cards being spread amongst the family members. I see aunt Margaret, she too has reddish hair, the color she’s passed onto her children, though unlike their thin and flushed faces, my Aunt’s lips curl with a snarl as she looks at her cards. I do not know why one would snar...

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