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Arran Appleton

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With Blades

Submitted to Contest #289

I received the call on Wednesday morning, telling me my brother was dead.It was suicide, apparently. He hadn’t shown up to work for a while, and eventually one of his colleagues had gone round to check on him. They found his door unlocked and him sat at his kitchen table. They say he had driven a kitchen knife up into his neck. I listened to the phone call, feeling numb. An hour later I was stood in front of the covered table in the morgue. They pulled the sheet back and I mumbled that yes, this was my brother Scott. The wound on his neck ha...

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