The Bitter-Sweetest Thing

[<] [>]  by Deneen Ansley

17 January 2013

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Drabble Challenge #107

Prompt: notes

He reached into the drawer for his hunting-boot-liners—stored what seemed like a lifetime ago. Identifying their texture, he jerked hard, pulling them from their wedged position in the back of the bureau. Freeing them at last, he fell, unceremoniously, butt-first on the floor.

Examining the hard-won prize clutched in his hand, he spotted a bright yellow bit sticking out of the bundle. A sticky note? “Bag one for me Baby! I love you!” it said in his wife’s cursive scrawl.

The nightmare re-descended as he crumpled further into the floor. She was still leaving notes—from beyond the grave.

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