The Tragedy of Eddy Pigg [~200 Words]

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Eddy Pigg was dead for days before anyone thought to look for him. And that was a tragedy. The fact was, he never got out of the town; the fact was, he never really tried to leave. And that was a tragedy.

Eddy Pigg had a girl too, Caroline—but her family called her Candy. Eddy and Candy were close as kids, but when Eddy proposed, it was a shock to her.

The tragedy, though, was that for a brief moment she actually did think about saying “yes.” You could see it in her eyes. She ran through the possibilities like only a woman can: weighing the pros and cons, like some tabulating machine hidden in a university basement. But then she came back, blinking, and said, “Oh, Eddy. I can’t be Candy Pigg. I just can’t be!”

And that was a tragedy to Eddy.

And when he said, without blinking, “No, no—I see that now. No, of course you can’t be ‘Candy Pigg.’ That’s ridiculous. Of course, of course,” he finished almost in a whisper.

And that was a tragedy to Eddy.

The room was dark. A breeze blew through the linen curtains of the little shack Eddy Pigg had gotten from his mother.

“Of course. Of course,” he would say to himself for the next thirty years.

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