The key hung around his neck. He’d tried every lock in the house.

Years passed and he forgot about it.

When he was eighty, his old eyes spotted the tiny door. He blew the cobwebs away, tried the key and the door opened.

Pain and breath left his body.

Freedom.

Nathan Hystad is a writer from Sherwood Park, Alberta. Sometimes he writes a lot of words and sometimes 50 is all that is needed for his story.