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Axis, written by Mary Gillis and performed by Marta de Silva.

The store had been open for about an hour on Monday morning when Travis Dance, Lacey's first customer of the day, came in.

The slowness wasn't unusual. Most days were slow in the off-seasons before the masses of summer people descended on the area, exclaiming in their two loud voices how quaint and charming the general

store was and taking endless photos of themselves with the old-fashioned candy jars. Lacey

recognized dance, of course. Virtually everyone in the town knew about

the millionaire. Or was he a billionaire? The amount of money he had was so vast, it was a distinction

without a difference. Two years ago, he'd bought the old Krayal acreage along with a few other smaller plots,

and now owned most of the western edge of the forested lakefront. He'd torn down the modest

grail house and had just finished directing a modern monstrosity made of steel and wood and glass in

its place.

How can I help you? Lacey said, with a fake smile she gave all the summer people.

Dance wasn't a summer person, technically, since he'd moved into his lakeside abomination a week earlier and told the mail carrier he planned to live there all year round.

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