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Submitted to Contest #53
The old cottage on the lake had stood vacant for too long since the old man’s wife had died. He watched over the seasons pass knowing that leaves were clogging the gutters and dust was collecting on the framed art his wife had insisted on buying at antiques malls they had passed together on their way. They had always been ugly but dust wouldn’t help. By the next spring’s passing he had made up his mind and found himself tottering around the old cottage and imagined that Edith was just inside, watching him as he worked. He pulled up over grow...
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