The end.
by Eirene Gentle
They kept an old lady in the attic and no one cared except it wasn’t an old lady it was a grown woman and they figured she deserved it except it wasn’t a grown woman it was a young girl and they got flustered but it wasn’t their business except it wasn’t a girl it was a young boy so they wondered what’s wrong with this world and seriously thought of doing something except it wasn’t a young boy it was a grown man and they were horrified. Stunned. They stormed the house with the furious force of law. The captors would’ve been killed if they hadn’t been out. The trial was a zoo, the death penalty likely, there’s just not enough protection for the average grown man except it wasn’t a man it was a boy so they waited a little and gave the captors parole except it wasn’t a boy it was a girl so they acquitted the captors with an apologetic warning except it wasn’t a girl it was just a woman so they sent her back and locked her in except it wasn’t a woman it was the old lady. Just like they thought. They did nothing in particular, so she died.
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BIO
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Eirene Gentle writes lit, mostly little, usually from Toronto, Canada.
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