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Visitation
by Sue Renol

I returned to this place each day, without understanding why. What drew me there? Was it some force beyond my scope of vision? I couldn’t conjure a single idea about what it was that compelled me to visit, but that compulsion was irresistible.

My daily walk home from work took me near the old asylum. It was only a short detour, so it wasn’t far out of the way. But I found myself going even on my days off. It didn’t matter what the weather was like, rain, snow, ice, scorching heat, I always went. I always stared into the darkness of that empty room expecting to find something there.

But every day, I went home disappointed, no closer to an answer for this obsession.

Until the day another person was there. He was a few windows down, staring into one like I did mine. He looked over at me and offered a smile bent with sadness. “So, you visit too, huh?”

“Every day,” I answered, unsure what he meant.

“We all come eventually,” he replied. “Been a while for me.”

“Why do we come here?” I asked, as if some common understanding existed between us, buried somewhere deep in my subconscious.

“To visit,” he said. “They get lonely if no one visits.”

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Fiction © Copyright Sue Renol
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