Rebekah Postupak brings us Flash Friday, 140-160 word stories based on the pic prompt and an added item. This week’s add is “an unpaid bill” and the pic is below. Read mine and then click > HERE < for the rest. Enjoy!!!
Letter boxes, Area 51. Public domain photo by MartinStr.
Owing the Man Upstairs
By Scott L Vannatter – 158 Words
Marcelle, postman extraordinaire, had volunteered for this route. He loved the long drive out into the middle of the desert before beginning the delivery of mail to people who, often, never dealt much with another person. Steve Medlin was one such individual. His mail box was so unique and so, well, different, that Marcelle always enjoyed reading all the wording and placing the letters in the various slots. This was the first time he had gotten to use the “alien” slot. There was no cable out here, no Internet, no phone lines for that matter. Little or no reception for miles made this location only a place for those who were hermits down deep. They might be open-spaced hermits, but hermits, nonetheless.
Apparently, Steve was a bit of a loon. Or, at least, Marcelle and others had thought so. Now, here was a post, labeled “overdue” and the address was, literally, “out of this world”. Who woulda thunk?
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Namaste,
Scott
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