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Flash fiction · From the Margen catalogue

The Treasure Map

As a child I drew a treasure map and buried a biscuit tin in my parents' garden. Thirty years later, when we sold the house, I dug it up again.

Inside was what I had hidden: a note in my crooked handwriting that said «Hello, me from the future.»

Beneath it, in handwriting that wasn't mine, someone had added: «Hello. Don't sell the house.»