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Weekly Contest #356
The grease from the bacon wouldn't wash out of the pine table.Maren scrubbed until her knuckle split against a knot in the wood, a thin bead of red blooming into the pale grain. She didn't wipe it away. She watched it sink, darkening the porous ring where Eli used to lean his elbow while he waited for the kettle to whistle.The house was too warm. Eli had spent his last autumn sealing the floorboards with resin from the swamp-myrtle down by the bend. He had crawled on his knees for three days, forcing the oil into every gap where the winter w...
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