My Ending for "When the Wasps Drowned".

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When the Wasps Drowned: Ending                Justin McDermott

That night, I was woken by what sounded like digging. I got up out of bed and crept over to the window, being cautious not to wake Therese. I peered through the gap in the curtain. I could see a small light at the end of Mr Mordecai’s garden; he was filling in a hole. He continued for about five minutes until the hole was full. He then carefully pulled what looked like a wooden flower boy over the bare patch of the lawn. Mr Mordecai then heaved what looked to be a large industrial sack, over his shoulder, and struggled into his house. By this time I was feeling particularly restless so decided to go and sit down stairs to try and cool down. I walked down the stairs and continued through to the kitchen. I got a glass of ice cold water from the dispenser in the fridge and went and sat at the breakfast table. Due to the heat we had left all the windows open, so you could hear quite a lot from outside. A short while later I heard Mr Mordecai’s distinctive, vintage car start and drive away.

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I was still concerned about what I had just witnessed. Had Mr Mordecai just dug up that body me and Therese found? I couldn’t resist. I had to find out. I carefully opened the patio doors from the kitchen to the barbeque patio, picking up a torch along the way. Therese hadn’t filled up the hole completely, just covered it, so I decided that I would re-dig it up and see if I could still find the body. This took about ten minutes, although it felt like an hour. Then the moment of truth…the body wasn’t there anymore.

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