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Eric Von Stroheim

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Sep, 2019

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And the Orange was the Earth on Fire

Submitted to Contest #11

   Madge was an old woman with not much left to give this world.  She was 77, but it felt like, in the past decade, death had—as they say—knocked at her door once or twice.  Ever since her daughter moved her into Cupid’s Arrow Nursing Home, Madge felt dead to the world, anyway. Linda hadn't visited in six months. She hadn't called in three. Madge still enjoyed her evenings with a bottle of port.  She had always been a drinker, but ever since moving to Cupid’s, it had become almost a nightly habit...

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