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Ryan Darnowski

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Mitchell’s in the Barn, Again

Submitted to Contest #230

It was some minutes past midnight, when Emma looked out her bedroom window. Out at the barn across the gravel driveway. From the glow of the gooseneck lamp, the right double door was partially ajar. Damnit! She thought. Grandpa Mitchell’s in the barn again. Once awhile, usually once or twice a week, Emma had noticed her grandfather would get up in the middle of the night and sneak off into his old barn. The old man was nostalgic, and he had built the barn with his bare hands during his thir...

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