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Weekly Contest #347
FAIR GAMEby Judy McSweeney Corn on the cob must be eaten like using a typewriter—line by line, twisting the ear mechanically, until every butter-soaked salty pearl is stripped from the cob in short sentences. It’s just the way it’s done, at least here in Devil’s Fault. And everyone knows that. The juice from my last row of kernels was still dripping out the corners of my mouth when I first saw her that Saturday, perched on the next picnic table. She was alone, like me, and about my age, too. Twelve-ish—plenty old enough to know how to eat ...
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