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Old Man's Curse: A Short Story - Joseph D'Agnese

By Joseph D'Agnese

Release Date: 2025-06-04

Genre: Mysteries & Thrillers

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Living to 100 years of age is a cakewalk, if you don't mind being murdered.

(Note: "Old Man's Curse" is a short story. It is also available in the author's 10-story collection, Daggyland #1.)

This short story first appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine under the title "Scintilla."

In the tense days before World War II, a charismatic old man offers a boy a chance to survive anything—sickness, war, famine—and live to a ripe old age.

If he does one little thing, the boy is guaranteed to live a hundred years, easy.

There's just one catch:

When his time's up, he'll be murdered.

What would you do?

* * *

"D'Agnese writes the most unusual and interesting books." —Bookviews
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Old Man's Curse: A Short Story - Joseph D'Agnese

By Joseph D'Agnese

Release Date: 2025-06-04

Genre: Mysteries & Thrillers

(0 ratings)
Read Download
Living to 100 years of age is a cakewalk, if you don't mind being murdered.

(Note: "Old Man's Curse" is a short story. It is also available in the author's 10-story collection, Daggyland #1.)

This short story first appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine under the title "Scintilla."

In the tense days before World War II, a charismatic old man offers a boy a chance to survive anything—sickness, war, famine—and live to a ripe old age.

If he does one little thing, the boy is guaranteed to live a hundred years, easy.

There's just one catch:

When his time's up, he'll be murdered.

What would you do?

* * *

"D'Agnese writes the most unusual and interesting books." —Bookviews
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