She Died Alone

Random Word Drabble Challenge

Julia A. Keirns
Fiction Shorts
Published in
1 min readJul 15, 2024

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The word for July 15 is settled. There is also a twist today.

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This is the last sentence I will be writing and I am going to stop mid-sent…

She died with the pen settled in her hand.

Angie knew the end was near when she took out the notebook and pen and began writing a goodbye note to her family.

Since they had placed her in the nursing home, she was lucky to see anyone once a month.

It was a sad ending to die alone, in a nursing home, not even a nurse in attendance to witness the end of her life.

Maybe now they would feel bad about it.

I enjoyed reading the following submission written by Bill Willisford.

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Julia A. Keirns
Fiction Shorts

Currently living in an RV full time and traveling across North America. The goal is simply to write about it. Editor of Fiction Shorts, the Challenged, and ROD.