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First, I did up my breakfast things, then scrubbed the plank floor.

I found myself in a cavernous, dusty room with a plank floor and high, exposed rafters.

Then, finally, she remembered the Bunty Club—not all the funny detail but the actuality of it, the clandestine meetings in the shed, crouching on the plank floor among all those dangerous tools they weren’t supposed to go near, the splintery walls fragrant with creosote, her arms wrapped tight around scabbed knees, feeling scalded and enthralled by what was forbidden.

The pine plank floor threatened to buckle.

Her back was sore too, from where her cushions had slid apart in the night and she’d fallen through to the rough plank floor of the cabin.