Not Off The Hook
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Last published Sat, Dec 14, 2019
A well crafted and compelling short story about a young Australian boy who is assigned the task of baby-sitting his younger brother while his mother is off at work.
She'd locked us in but had forgotten the spare house keys hanging precariously on a hook by the door.
"Well, she never said the garden was not part of the house."
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