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Episode 32: End of the Marriage

February 9, 2020Fictionthe-daily-drabble

End of the Marriage His skin was gray, wrinkled, speckled with many darkened spots of age and moles that resembled fungus. The room was thick with the stink of his rot coated tongue, his vinegary feet, his greasy forehead. He was short, frail, with a crooked spine and a hairline invisible in front-facing portraits. His teeth floated in miasmic water in a cup beside his bed. Her eyes watered. She had never seen, and would never see again, anyone more beautiful, more precious, more perfect. She kissed his cool forehead before pulling the sheet over his slackening face and rising to fetch a nurse.

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