The Body in the Alleyway
A few months ago, I was on my way to Grandmother's house, I mean the grocery store, when I passed by my friend's apartment and the cobblestone alleyway that runs alongside her building. I glanced, saw a body, kept walking, and then glanced again because I saw a body. I mean, I wasn't sure it was a body; it was fall, so my first thought was that it was a discarded scarecrow.
I decided to investigate. Approaching, I verified that it was humanoid, but I thought it might be fake until I was upon it, and my God, it was a person. He lay supine with his arms stretched zigzagged and his legs crumpled. Two cellphones lay on the ground beside him.
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