You are Cordially Invited to Run – A short story

Here’s a flash fiction I wrote a while ago. Enjoy!

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“You are cordially invited to run. I’ll give you a two-minute head start.”

I had found the note lying on the desk in the reading room at my library on All Hallows Eve. “It must have been someone’s bookmark,” I said, holding the paper to the light.

It was a cold, rainy day, and I had only run out for candy, but the library is my favorite haunt, so I’d braved the drops and was still slightly damp. That’s not why I shivered.

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