Jack Lennon

Jack Lennon is a writer and poet from Scotland. You can find their work published by Always Crashing, Night Shades and 404 Ink, among others. Contact them or read more at jacklennon.com.

HEIR APPARENT by Jack Lennon

1 Your wife was overjoyed when your uncle drowned in three inches of water at the bottom of a cave. It meant your family would inherit his house. Although you both wished it wasn’t in such tragic circumstances. That’s what you kept saying to people. Not that you had any strong feelings about him or his death. You barely knew him. Was spelunking in Chile a normal pastime of his? Nobody knew him well enough to tell you. Not at the funeral, not during the will reading, nor when you took his place in his very respectable neighbourhood. They would…

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