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A River Runs Again: Fire
Emily Teresa pulls her LPG gas ration book from its hiding place and points.
Grandfather sipped his chai, the smoke from the woodstove transformed by the sunlight into a grey slanted column behind him. His daughter-in-law Seema slapped the bhakri bread into rounds and singed them on the griddle over the fire. Yes, she said, of coursse she would prefer a gas stove. But Grandfather, teacup in hand, balked. Seema demured. It was true. Her husband liked the way bhakri tasted cooked over the wood Seema collected free from the fields, which she lit in the small kitchen with the blackened walls.
girl in yello is Sonipriya
