The Gift

 

 
 
 

                                                                                                              

The Gift (shorter version/contest entry)
“Better days ahead”                        
Her mom had often spoken those words. 
For two years Carrie had mourned her passing. 
                                
Carrie’s own dad had tragically died at the young age of 43. From that day, loneliness and lack of confidence had been her mother’s downfall. The biggest downer of all: Cliff, the man she would [...]

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The Homecoming…

The hot, stifling air. A far-reaching, almost eerie silence. Sky, brilliantly blue; generously dotted with billowy “mashed potato” clouds. Replicas and visions from younger, happier days.
All of these had remained. Helping to sustain him through the long, lost days. He had known only to well, the many faces of hunger and thirst. The nights, hardest [...]

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