The Faded Bouquet
The dress was red. Not the polite pink of the village chapel, but a deep, arterial crimson that seemed to drink the light. It hung on a wooden hanger in the attic, stiff with age and dust. I was twelve when I found it. My father had died the week before. The house felt too big. The silence in the halls was heavy, like wet wool. My mother sat in the parlor. She did not look up. She stitched a...
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