Lauren North

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“The Old Man and the Rabbit” by Lauren North

Submitted to Contest #164

“Where I come from, a person returns things to the place they belong,” the old man grumbles as an icy wind whips away the plume of his breath. He stumps through the swirling snowflakes across the SuperValu car park—deserted now, save for his own ’77 VW Dasher—toward the lone shopping trolley that’s rolled away and stuck in the brittle grass between the pavement and the motorway. He could swear he’d checked the tarmac thoroughly, as is his habit, before bringing the rest of the trolleys in at the store’s closing. Some gobshite abandoned it o...

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Word nerd, writer, general faffer-about. Currently pursuing publication for my first novel.