The Magic Apple Tree
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10 min readAug 5, 2018
Emily is in the kitchen. She recently failed her teacher training and suffered a brief breakdown after, but she seems perfectly happy here, baking bread for the house guests. She wears a vintage Laura Ashley prairie dress with a pattern of tiny speedwell and a big white apron, the ties wrapped many times around her waist.
As she reaches up for the ceramic jar of flour on a high shelf, I notice that the dress is torn under one…
