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Broken Pair
May 23, 2018
She cleaned her husband’s room. Lifting the mattress, she found a single fettered sock, forlorn, forgotten. She heard a knock. The CNO stood tall in uniform, imposing, like death itself. She broke down into tears at the news, she fell back against the wall, and clutched the lone sock, never finding its pair.
© Anonymous
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This was part of a competition to write a story with only 53 words in it, with the theme being lost socks.