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Scarcely Gone

ShortStory 2,302 words

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We'd only lived in Arizona four years—it was our retirement place. But I'd died there, and she'd dumped my ashes out in the desert without fanfare, without any poem or prayer, unless you considered, “Jesus, Marty, don't leave me. Why'd you leave me, you old bastard" to be an elegy.

Contemporary FantasyFamilyWarm

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MortalityMagical RealismConsciousnessSpeculative FictionWryContemplativeMemoryContemporaryLiteraryFirst PersonFantasyBittersweetCharacter Driven

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