The exhumation.....

Ohhh this Saturday Centus was a brutal one...the subject and the 50 word limit.

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This week's prompt is in BOLD.


Using strong chains they lifted the wooden box that held the body.

Later, at the museum spectators gathered close.

The top creaked loudly as it opened.

It felt sacred seeing an unearthed body.

After 145 years, nothing more than bone and teeth.

"Abraham Lincoln was a lot shorter than I thought he would be..." an onlooker remarked, forgetting about the top hat.