Auction House

Chapter 23 of Snowbirds, a serialized novella-in-flash by Margo Rife

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Thank you for reading Snowbirds, a serialized novella-in-flash by Margo Rife. Go here to start at the beginning. You’ll find the linked table of contents here.

Part 1

My family went on an outing to an auction house in Lake Worth, one town over but a different world. It’s somewhat quaint, a word never associated with Palm Beach. The auction features swanky stuff that relatives of the deceased pass over because it’s not quite good enough. The storefront setting is depressing with low fluorescent lights overhead and grimy folding chairs. A musky odor mingled with cigarette smoke makes my allergies act up.

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Margo Rife

Margo Rife is a playwright and fiction writer. Her work has been published by New World Writing Quarterly and other literary publications. Margo’s novella-in-flash Snowbirds will be serialized at Fiction Attic Press.