short story
Going, going, gone
a short story of 2,100 words
Published in
10 min readJun 23, 2023
There was no doubt about it. The music box Grandad had brought back from Italy after the war was hideous. It looked like Walt Disney’s castle, in a gaudy way, and was allegedly part of a pair. But it was tasteless and tacky and now it was gone. Instead of feeling elation, though, Abigail was distraught.