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Light taps from outside so nearly like his. Once on the front door, the clapboard; once on the storm shutters the night it flies in. Open door to window – black flurry tapping back. Sharp-soft. TOCK-tock. That I’m-good, see-you-later kind of Death’s knock.
Since receiving an MFA from Wichita State University, Stephen Delaney has taught English and writing and currently works as a freelance editor. His short fiction has appeared in, among other places, New World Writing, Euphony, Requited, Lines + Stars, and Blink-Ink. @smallestwords.