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Aiden Hayles

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Bitter Brew

Submitted to Contest #287

The tea is too sweet. Strange, since I don't recall adding sugar. The morning light filters through the kitchen window, dust motes dancing in the golden beams like memories trying to settle. I measure out two scoops of my morning blend, the leaves dark and fragrant against the pale ceramic."Eliot, you don't like sugar, do you?" I ask, glancing at my husband sitting in his usual chair. He shakes his head, same as he has every morning for forty-three years. The kettle whispers steam into the quiet house.I pour two cups, the amber liquid catchi...

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