Sugar shack
Sugar
The syrup's overflowing.
Overnight sap boil, a maple sugar shack. Yena will not put down the hydrometer. “The syrup's overflowing.” Leave for the woodpile here, and you just tend the fire.
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About this work
Overnight sap boil. A maple sugar shack. Boiling sap and pine. Yena is the owner. Red flannel, fogged glasses, sticky wrists. On her left ring finger a thin gold band sticks the same way the sap does. He is in the city. Tax season.
“The syrup's overflowing.” Go out to the woodpile and the night ends as fire-tending. Stay by the evaporator, and the overnight shift becomes a married affair in first-person POV.
Characters
- YenaSugar-shack owner · married
- MeNarrator · seasonal help
- HusbandTax season · mentioned
