Reuben Rivett

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“Mom's Room” by Reuben Rivett

Submitted to Contest #96

We call it the guest room. Well, Esther does, but she's always been the more optimistic of the two of us. The guest room, though we've never had guests in there, and likely won't for a while. The guest room, though used to be my Mom's room. It used to be. The pandemic had screwed everything up. Mom couldn't stay in the retirement home anymore. Before the lockdown hit us, we got her out. I didn't want her to be alone. Esther agreed, and so we did it. We saved her. Or, so I thought. It wasn't the pandemic that killed her. It had killed so ...

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