The Faded Photograph

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I was scrubbing the grease from the basin when the nail slipped from my fingers, cold and rusted, into the white suds. The sparrow lay pinned beneath the flour, its wings spread in a grotesque V, a small, dead thing that did not belong in the kitchen of a woman who had paid her debts for ten years. I did not scream. I picked it up by the tail, the feathers slick with oil and blood, and set it...

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