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The Curious Administration of Hawthorne’s Cryptic Will
The Gardener, The Parrot and The Hidden Treasure
Today’s Random Word is Administration
A Drabble is a work of fiction that is exactly 100 words. No more. No Less.
I, Cornelius Hawthorne, hereby direct my last will and testament to be administered by a cartographer who maps the stars for lost poets and a clock-maker who crafts timepieces running counter to time and a librarian who archives the whispers of ghosts.
My fortune is cloaked in a cryptic crossword puzzle and my treasure hidden in a deep, ancient chamber shrouded in secrecy.
Only those who unravel my enigma shall inherit.
If puzzle unsolved, entire estate to go to my gardener Grimsby.
Gerald, my astute parrot, guards the ultimate revelation and will serve the administration of my will faithfully.
