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Hard Water by S. E. Wilson

Photo of old water pump/spigot over bucket
 

  The appointment was made for five-thirty so my wife Polly and I could both be there.  She worked in an office in town and I was working from home then. But my work had been slow so I really wasn’t doing much of anything at work, and when I was awoken by a knock at the front door I sat up on the couch and looked at the clock and saw that it was a quarter to five.  When I opened the door an overweight man in his sixties, wearing a white dress shirt … Continue reading Hard Water by S. E. Wilson