Parting Gift
A 1,200 word short story
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6 min readApr 21, 2024
“This is from all of us,” a colleague from Akadri Accounts said, handing me a gift-wrapped box.
Five years I’d been there and not one of them knew me well enough to come up with something better than toiletries. As much my fault as theirs. I’m a private person. Not unfriendly — I’m always ready for a chat, and often join my colleagues for a drink after work, but find it…
