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FARM HANDS by Mark Abdon
The rocking horse was hideous, though. It was the eyes. Wide open and vacant, set too high on that giant head. The foot-pegs had snapped off on Black Friday.
Mark Abdon’s stories are forthcoming in The Pinch Journal, Door is a Jar, and others. He was also named a finalist for the 2023 New Letters’ Robert Day Award for Fiction. He hails from Indianapolis, Indiana.