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Goodreads asked Leslie Nagel:

Can you tell us a two-sentence horror story?

Leslie Nagel Oooh, just in time for Halloween! OK, here goes:

As the young Earl pried open the cracked, moldering lid of the wooden trunk, long buried in the stinking mud of this abandoned corner of the family graveyard, the stench of its grisly contents assaulted his nose and mouth, causing him to retch, and retch again. The blood drained from his face as he forced himself to face the truth: his twin brother, older by one minute and the rightful heir, had been buried alive, and his own hand had delivered the unwitting touch of death.

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