L-a Troda

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“Taps” by L-a Troda

Submitted to Contest #177

Dad didn’t even look up when I entered the room. Selfishly, I preferred it like that. When he first contracted the virus, he would gaze up from his bed with pleading eyes as he prattled on incoherently. “Di-di | di-dah-di-di dah-dah-dah di-di-di-dah di | dah-di-dah-dah dah-dah-dah di-di-dah.”Every day. Every, single day in the beginning stages of his decline, that’s all I heard from him. There was still light behind his eyes back then. They begged me to listen to wha...

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