Broadhurst ... a short story (525 words)

525 Words. Opening paragraph: "Lying on his right side upon the porch boards, Broadhurst, as best he could manage, propped himself up with his left arm; and then craning over the daisies his Clair had planted that spring, he watched the large red sun, one last time, drop beneath the plains - for surely tonight, he thought, the nightingales would sing."