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Madeleine Fewster

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Tomato Soup

Submitted to Contest #239

The radio issued a crackled weather warning on the day I left the cabin. I had almost wished that it would be a good enough excuse to stay, but this time I had to go home. Home was where my childhood seeped from wallpaper and my ancestors paved the streets. Home was not the cabin, no matter how much I might wish it to be.  My four wheel drive rumbled over rocks that water had smoothed over time. By then, the sky had begun to drool hen's feathers. They floated down tentatively, as if they didn't really wish to fall.  I drove tow...

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