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Flash fiction · From the Margen catalogue

The Last Show

The village’s old cinema closed twenty years ago, but on Tuesdays, at eight, the marquee lights come on again by themselves.

No one goes in or out. One night I went up and pressed my face to the glass of the ticket booth. Inside, a full house was applauding a film I couldn’t quite hear.

In the back row there was an empty seat, with my name written on the backrest.