Chapter Eight: What She Didn’t Say

From The Price of Extension

by Esi Noire

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Mrs. M didn’t eat much. She glanced toward the record player.

“You want to listen again?”
“Not yet.”

Nomi found a notebook behind Freddie’s coats. She didn’t scan it. She just… held it.

Outside, the boy swept instead of mowing. He patched a screen, fixed the door.

“Does this mean I don’t mow anymore?”
“You mow if you want to.”
“I do.”

That evening, on the porch, Nomi turned over a rock.

On the back:

Thank you.

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