Found in the oven after cooking Thanksgiving dinner…

The smell hit first. Not turkey, not pie… something darker, sharper, wrong. We pulled the roasting pan out, laughing, tired, ready to collapse on the couch. Then we saw it. A warped, alien-looking lump fused to the bottom of the oven, glittering with tiny bits of metal. For a moment, everyone went silent. Nobody dared touc… Continues…

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