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Weekly Contest #339
For the first time in their marriage, Tenley Bloom wakes up before her husband. In the bathroom, she lights the Pumpkin Devil candle that's been on the counter, unused, since buying it at the Syracuse Farmers' market, two years earlier. The flame crackles, burning through a layer of dust, before the sickly-sweet aroma permeates the room. It's September and Tenley is momentarily embarrassed by how obvious it all feels. She's never been the candle type. And yet, she'd been possessed to light it that morning, to what, encourage a sense of calm?...
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