Lake Lewisia #1084

Most of the people in the town, being significantly younger than she, accepted the façade of the nice little old lady she had built up in front of her rather more colorful history. She had even established enough of a reputation for baking comforting dishes for friends and neighbors that everyone suggested she try the contest. Only when they saw the exotic, otherworldly contents of her spice cabinet--or perhaps watched her cut butter into flour with fistfuls of throwing knives--did they begin to suspect that she had once been something more than a grandmotherly type.

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LL#1084