Sam & Ink · A short story
The Note in the Other Room
Sam hears a piano note in a house where there is no piano. He looks for its source and finds a different reason to listen.
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“The first time Sam heard it, he assumed someone upstairs had left a piano playing.”
“There isn’t a piano.”
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