“Toby still hasn’t returned home from work yet!”

“I’m sure he’s just helping clean up the store like usual. No need to worry.”

“I’ll call him if he isn’t back in an hour.”

Toby was indeed helping clean the store.

All his coworkers had left, but he wasn’t there alone…

Madalyn is a grade 11 student at Charlottetown Rural High School. Everyone in her writing class was assigned the task of creating a fifty word short story.