This post is submitted to Rochelle Wisoff-Fields Friday Fictioneers challenge.
Now the spiders have started to take over. The potted flowers have also begun their decay. I have never dusted since that day.
Just after dark I turn on the lights in her room. I bring her a small glass of wine. I turn on the television to a program that she watched almost every night.
I come back in an hour and turn the television off and open the book she is currently reading.
I return to the kitchen and wash and dry the dishes I have used to prepare my dinner.
She never eats. She never complains.
Oh Danny Boy! 
This sounds like one of those stories where the body is a mummy and still there. He seems to have lost his mind when she died. They must have been a solitary couple for no one to notice. Good horror story writing, Danny. —- Suzanne
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Thank you! A very good and accurate summary of my little story.
DJ
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Oh, horrors! He must be insane! Really well-written.
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Sad yet gross…
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I think she will soon start to smell though
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Sounds like a day in the life at The Bates motel. Great read. Thanks
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It’s either beautiful or sinister. Is he refusing to let go, or hiding a dastardly crime?
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At first I thought she was perhaps a lady suffering from dementia, but if she never eats or complains I suppose she must be dead, which makes this tale chilling rather than sad.
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I wrote it as if she were dead. Thanks for stopping by and commenting.
Danny
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So very sad.
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Thanks! Always glad to hear from you.
DJ
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Poignant tale.
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Beautifully Hitchcok. Oh mother! Blood!
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Very sad, unable to let go.
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Touching and at the same time something slightly sinister about his sticking to the routine.
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So touching and poignant. By the way, loved the picture of the library. Something so cozy about it.
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Very neat picture!! Like the story too.
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Well hello there! Thanks for the nice comment and stopping by.
Danny
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