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doomed romance, bereavement, longing, devotion
She waited. She listened for the familiar footfall of her father. From the kitchen table to the living room, the steps of an aching man. His chair creaked as he stood and the floors moaned in places. She listened breathlessly…
1 She felt dazed and unaware of her surroundings. The room was lit by a circle of blue candles on a table opposite her bed. Despite the remarkably bright light, she lay in darkness. The folds of the curtains suspended…
My neighbor buried her husband three days after the accident. She didn’t cry at the funeral. That should’ve been the first red flag. At night, I heard her through the walls. Our houses are too close together. At first, it…
They don’t use her name much anymore. Used to be they did. Back when it first happened, when folks still remembered her laugh and the way she kept her house neat as a pin. But time has a way of…
She recognized the laugh. The sweet and carefree laugh that played through the wind. Echoes of a little girl who became so bitter with age. The past seemed to rush before her in a play of words and melodies. She…
Sylvia locked the bathroom door, but didn’t know why she bothered. She plopped down on the closed commode and listened to the rush of two voices outside. “I didn’t know she’d come home,” her husband apologized. “Well, you better next…
