| The | Monkey Spoons |
BY MARY ELIZABETH COUNSELMAN
Heading by Boris Dolgov
"Funeral spoons.... What a gift for a man to give his bride!"The little shop seemed to have taken the musty, worm-eaten quality of furniture and relics it offered for sale. There was an all-pervasive odor of mildew and decaying wood. Dust motes whirled in a shaft of sunlight as the street door opened, with the hushed tinkle of a bell above the sedate gold letters: JONATHAN SPROULL, ANTIQUES.
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