Prompt: Solitude

Prompts, Short Fiction, Writing
Today's prompt is: Solitude. My Response: The days after Evelyn's death were long and hard. I sought solitude and the company of myself, but it seemed to me that there was another knock on my door as soon as one person had left. They came to visit me, to ask me about her last words, a few to see how I was doing. I did not care for their company; without Evelyn the temple was nothing to me. The temple of Ahkmar was rising; without Evelyn, this temple was as good as dead. It served a dead Goddess after all. A newspaper came to me and asked me to write her obituary. I spat in the young man's face and told him to leave me alone with my grief. I…
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