Fiction
The Day the World Ended
The day the dead started walking
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16 min readApr 18, 2024
Our neighbor Troy was different. He kept to himself, only once did I remember speaking with him before it happened. Our mother occasionally said hello, and I remember Lauren selling lemonade to him sometime before our Dad died. He was a tall man, and I remember him smiling when this little girl handed him a cup of warm lemonade…