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Tuesday. The gravel, the last of the light.
The gates were quiet. The windows watched. She stood at her car with one hand on the cold roof, and the evening, giving nothing away, went on counting with her.
Then she emptied the left pocket.
The wiper's rubber lip came up the way a collar comes up. The folded paper went under it, flat against the glass, two words down, her lettering hidden inside its own crease. She laid the blade back over it, then eased it up again, one finger's width proud of the windshield. Her mark. Anyone in this county could read a windshield. Only she could read a blade.
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