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Weekly Contest #342
The Man in the Shoebox By Rich Strack They came into Sheenan’s Funeral Home, men wearing dark suits and ties. Women in black. One young boy squeezing his mother’s hand was shuffled to a seat far away from the front of the room. A suffocating scent of flowers surrounded the open casket. A few sniffles and whispers I heard behind me broke through the thick silence that hovered around us. A woman smelled like she soaked in a bathtub filled with cheap perfume bent down before me and said she was so sorry in a gust of bad breath made worse by the...
Weekly Contest #309
A Knock at the Door By Richard Strack The man she buried is back. He’s knocking on the door late at night and he’s covered in dirt. “I want to get that new murder mystery book to read in my grave,” said the dead man with a laugh to his wife. He “died” five days ago after falling off the roof of their Iowa farm house while he was replacing a few old shingles. His wife, Sheila of 14 years was the beneficiary of a life insurance policy worth three million dollars. Following his so - called death, the company had done their due diligence with a ...
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