Long Game by Michelle Ross


A very short story about a grandmother’s legacy with a surprising premise:

After the funeral, my father sends me a one-minute timer, the small, plastic kind used in board games, only it’s not filled with fine, white sand but lumpy flecks of gray. Her idea, the note reads.

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