Calvin Spears

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“New England Months & Years” by Calvin Spears

⭐️ Shortlisted for Contest #79

13 For exactly the opposite of what I thought I would be lying across cream carpet with––carpet thick enough to bury toes in––I looked to her.  Smells resembled the inactivity of rubber storage containers and Christmas decorations wrapped in trash bags.  Smells of patchouli candles that Mom burned only around the holidays in an effort to remember her 1950s childhood, smells of the comforter’s fabric softener, smells of perfume tray that had been gifted from some great-aunt, lying as a carcass on the furniture with blac...

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Contest #79
New England Months & Years – read story