100 Word Story: Leavings

“The mailman left a sock in the mailbox.” Bernie threw the mail on the table – three store flyers, a political ad, and a white sock.

Harriett rifled through the mail, then held up the sock with two fingers. “At least it’s clean.”

“Do you think it was his own sock or did he find it?” Bernie wondered about this and the other things the mailman had left – a woman’s belt, a Stephen King book, and a license plate left leaning on the railing because it was too big for the mailbox.

“It’s the kind he wears. I’ve watched him walking.”

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