Wickham Wax Works docent, Marilyn, unearthing from cold storage the figures for the “Wickham Soothsayers” installation, levered open the last wooden crate to find her late granny, Florence, staring up at her. Marilyn carefully pried her long lost Magic 8-Ball from Granny’s wax fingers, wondering if it still held answers.

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