He left her a widow, alone… bereft.

Left no will… only debt.

The Repo men left only his urn.

He’d left her in the dark about his ‘little pad’ in the city. It boasted eight bedrooms, a mistress, and three children.

She left his ashes in the bin outside it.

Mary Sheehan lives in what’s known as the sunny south-east of Ireland. Her stories are getting shorter and shorter, probally due to lack of sunshine.