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Submitted to Contest #225
My grandfather was a bit of a hermit after his second wife died. He could barely keep it together after his first wife, my grandmother, died, but when his second wife, half his age, died unexpectedly, he became a different person. He sold all of his possessions, and three of his houses, to purchase a gigantic mansion in the woods up north. We never heard from him after that, and it wasn’t until we got a call from the sheriff’s department asking us to identify the body that we got an update on what he was doing all alone out there. Apparently...
Submitted to Contest #199
The walk to the train station was taking longer than Terry had anticipated. His legs felt heavy, and he couldn't shake the feeling there was one more thing he needed to do before he left. This happened the year before, and the year before that, and now that it had fully set in this time, he tried to run through the possible things he could have forgotten. It was an exercise in futility. The apartment had been cleaned thoroughly, the keys were in the mailbox, and he had retrieved the security deposit back the night before. He checked his pock...
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