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153 Years

“Baby,” she said, satisfied that she could feel his warmth from a recent drink.

F. Leonora Solomon
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3 min readJan 5, 2025

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Zenith was at the oddities flea market by herself. She and Zander were living in a small English town at the moment, and she was happy to find a witchy place like this in the open air.

When she saw the coffin she was floored. The oversized black granite coffin with the plush black velvet interior made her gasp. The iridescent pomegranate one she had with a matching interior was beautiful — Zander got it for her for Valentine’s Day years ago.

He wanted to spoil her all of the time, but never needed it reciprocated. He was so old school and traditional which she loved about him and was why she wanted to spoil him.

The price was not an issue when she purchased the coffin to be delivered to them. It would not be conspicuous, their neighbors knew that they were a witchy, new age couple.

No one raised an eyebrow when he got her coffin delivered or when they received a delivery of bones. They were just Zenith and Zander — the…

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