Old Man's Curse: A Short Story

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?

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