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Flash fiction · From the Margen catalogue

The Census

They knocked on the door for the census. When I said how many of us lived in the house, the official frowned and counted, under his breath, one person more than I had.

«It must be a mistake,» I said. He shook his head and showed me his list. Every name was correct.

The last one, the one too many, was written with tomorrow's date.