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Deceased Estate For Sale

3 min readOct 28, 2026

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Modern Country Home with dormers and front porch
Photo by Roger Starnes Sr on Unsplash

It's all going. Yeah, yeah, the house too. You’ll have to speak to the agent about that, though. I can't sell it to you right now. Are you interested in the house? We’ve got a good price for it already. Well no, I can't tell you what the offer is. But I can tell you that it's close to $5 million. Ha! No I'm not lying. You don't think the house is worth that much? Look, the old man put a lot of work into it. Those shiny gold banisters? Real gold! You don't believe me? Give it a tap, go on. You don't believe me? Well, what can I say. It'll go to the other fella then. At a steal of $5 million! No, no I didn't say he put in an offer for $5 million. It's close to it. Slightly above it, I’d say. Look if you're ready to do $6 million, the house is yours. Have you seen the garden? It's huge. The old man planted each seedling in there with his own hands. Carrots, apples. Parsley. Oranges. Everything you'd ever want. Organic! You'll never need to do another shop at the supermarkets again. Oh, the meat? Yes well, they do say vegetables keep the earth turning, or something, eh? Ha ha. Just a little joke there.

While you are here, how about a look through the garage? His old cars are all for sale! He has quite a collection, eh? His wife adored it. Loved seeing him with his collection of vintage cars. What a love, what a love they had. He kept buying them to keep…

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Maya Astha
Maya Astha

Written by Maya Astha

Australian writer-artist with roots in South and Southeast Asia. Publications editor at Cultural Tides.

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Home for flash fiction. A place for excellent tiny stories that capture something much larger. A single frame of a moving picture. Microfiction between 100 & 1000 words, any genre.