The Wrong House: Flash Fiction, #3

By Allison M. Azulay

A neighbourhood turns upside down with the arrival of an unusual newcomer.

• Language: English
• Publisher: ALLISON MARGARET AZULAY
• Release date: Jan 5, 2022
• ISBN: 9781989215449

Allison M. Azulay

Born to Canadian parents of mixed, predominantly British heritage, Allison M. Azulay spent her formative years in a village outside of the capital city of Ottawa and her teen years in the steel city of Hamilton, Ontario. Like her mother, she read voraciously, and she composed stories of her own at home as well as in school. Later, encouraged by her husband to explore her ideas and talents, she wrote poems, short stories, children's storybooks for relatives, and more. After the death of her husband, she began to write and independently publish novels and short stories.

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Allison M. Azulay

The Wrong House

A Flash Fiction Comedy

Copyright © 2021 by Allison M. Azulay.  All rights reserved.

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The Wrong House is a work of fiction.  Names, characters, places and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.  Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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ISBN 978-1-989215-44-9 (ebook)

Cover Design by Allison M. Azulay

Published in Canada by ALLISON M. AZULAY

Table of Contents

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 1

BEFORE THE INCIDENT, Horatio Bloom had never been judged the sort of man who would cheat on his wife. People used to say they set their clocks by his comings and goings. Indeed, so punctilious was he that he considered it devil-may-care to occasionally wear loafers, a turtleneck sweater, and a corduroy jacket with suede patches at the elbows that gave him a downright professorial look. (Normally, his garb comprised plain white shirt, unembellished grey tie, and grey two-piece suit in pin-stripe for summer or three-piece tweed for winter. Even his grey socks