The Golden Myth

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The Golden Myth

The jar sat on the counter, a squat, cylindrical sentinel of glass and wax. Inside, suspended in a thick, amber syrup that smelled of burnt sugar and old memories, floated the last of the honeycombs. It was a golden myth, or so my mother had called it, not with the reverence of a priest, but with the weary finality of a doctor pronouncing a sentence. I was twenty-four, working the graveyard...

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