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Weekly Contest #64
Micah knew the time was coming to go to that place out back. He had been pondering its inevitability for over a year. He had, he realized, grown old, old and tired. Eighty may not be ancient for some, but he felt it’s weight. His wife of fifty-five years had passed on two years earlier enduring a slow and agonizing “death by the inch” as he called it. His life’s partner was gone. Their three children had dispersed like the winds throughout the country. They called occasionally and visited when their lives permitted, which was not very often....
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