The Wrong Funeral — An Original Short Story by Don McDonald

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An obituary arrives in the mail, folded in thirds, no note, no return address, and the creases are sharp enough to cut with.Roy Kittleson has not seen the man named in it since a Friday in 1986, and he has his reasons, and none of them are good. He drives up anyway. Three hours, most of it flat.He has rehearsed nothing. He is counting on grief to arrive on its own.“The Wrong Funeral,” is an original story written and read by Don McDonald from ShortStoryverses.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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