Mar 31, 2012 08:39
Brett Mansfield received a letter in the post for a legacy of $500. All he had to do was visit the Old Fort within two days to collect it (or it'd go to the next recipient).
Brett walked to the Old Fort and paused, looking up at it. It looked abandoned. He put his hand on the door knob.
"What are you doing?" a woman in a green coat asked him. Her tiny dog snuffled his feet.
"I just --"
"Don't you know that building's closed?"
Brett shifted under the twin stares of woman and dog. "I guess . . ." he said.
"You guess?"
"My mistake," Brett mumbled, mortified.
"Move along, then," the woman said, and woman and dog watched him slink away. "Thank goodness," the woman remarked to her dog when Brett was out of earshot. "I thought he was going to go in and get my legacy!"
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