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The Light You Keep On

by Catherine Morrow

Ten years of want, a stolen bar of soap, and a dead woman's voice still charged on a purple cable. A chef and his former line cook get one night to settle what they never finished.


*The Good Bathroom*

"Close your eyes," Rachel says, in the good bathroom, holding a rolled towel to his lapel, and Diego does, and that is the first mistake of the night — because with his eyes shut he can smell that she still uses the same soap she stole from his kitchen ten years ago.

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