A Warm Glow

100 Word Story

Dan Leicht
ILLUMINATION
Published in
Feb 1, 2024

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Image by Albert Antony on Unsplash

A creak of the floor or perhaps a turn of the knob, Franklin couldn’t be sure what exactly woke him up. He stumbled out of bed. A late-night visitor wasn’t a strange thing where he lived in the woods, but the typical suspects, varmint, and the like, couldn’t turn handles last he knew.

A warm glow hung in the kitchen window, peculiar so late at night. Franklin sauntered over to the sink, only…

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