The Weight of Gold
But Thursday at Marlene’s was hers.
He had shown her the workshop by then. It was a single large room at the back of the property, smelling of sawdust and linseed oil, lit by two industrial windows that faced east. Half-finished chairs stood in various states of assembly. A long table ran down one wall, covered in clamps, planes, chisels, small bottles of stain in colors that had handwritten labels: walnut, ebony, honey, ghost.
Ghost, she had said. What’s ghost?