The Faded Dust

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The Faded Dust

The kitchen smells of burnt sugar and copper. You stand before the stove, the wooden spoon a dead weight in your hand, staring at the blackened mass in the cast-iron pot. It is not jam. It was never jam. It is the residue of your attempt to preserve the summer, to bottle the light of the last week you spent with your mother before the hospice took her into the dark. The air is thick, heavy with...

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