Estelle Allen

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“The Pianist” by Estelle Allen

Submitted to Contest #86

It was 2.40 on a weekday in July when Margo Barling decided to give up. Picture her there at the kitchen sink, folded over somewhat, Heberden fingers pressing the handheld to her cheek. The traffic outside Margo’s house had cleared. There’d been some road rage between two dads on the school run about twenty minutes earlier, each trying to get as close as possible to the prep school down the road. But now Margo watched the empty street, tinny music from down the phone gone cold in the sweat of the scarp of her cheek. She’d been on hold for th...

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