The Choice of Stone - 1031 Story Challenge.

Happy Halloween! For the past few weeks I've been inviting writers to take part in a challenge to write a short story of 1031 words or fewer. There are some fantastic pieces - read them all here - and they're still coming in, which is amazing. Below is my own, inspired by the fascinating carvings of the Soul Effigy, Father Time, and Death on some of the oldest graves in Boston, MA. To learn more about that, see here and here). Enjoy.

The Choice of Stoneby Simon P. Clark
The grave was fresh...