Bep Hayman

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“Uncle Chrissy” by Bep Hayman

Submitted to Contest #253

Uncle Chrissy is calling again. This has got to be the seventh or eighth time now. They must have let him know I was being discharged early, and he's gone into a panic about it. I don't like to picture him this way: slumped in his favourite chair in his little house, still wearing the same clothes from three days ago in case he needs to dash out the door. Maybe right now he's in a cab or on the bus, coming toward me as I move away from him. Fake Uncle Chrissy—that is, the guy I bribed outside the hospital to pretend to be Uncle Chrissy—is wa...

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