The Wistful Petal
The trowel scraped against the raw concrete with a sound like a fingernail dragging down a chalkboard, and I felt the grit of the aggregate burn into the calluses of my palm. I was forty-two years old, and my knees ached in a specific, dull way that no amount of anti-inflammatory pills could fully mask, but the job was the job, and the job was to make the Blackwood Manor stand up straight so...
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