ABC shorts: The Map…

The Map

A.B. Carolan, Copyright 2019

“Maybe it’s a treasure map,” Kevin said after unrolling the document they’d found in the old house onto the attic floor and putting some old tools at each corner to hold it down.

“Kind of weirdo,” his friend Dave said. “Just a bunch of black dots with some numbers beside them. Maybe the rest of it faded away? The paper’s brittle.”

The roll of paper had been in the top, thin drawer of an old chest. The other larger drawers were filled with rocks.

Kevin look...