A man discovers a mystical experience after the death of his wife
Buckets Of Roses
Short Story By Paul McCann
After quitting his job he had a regular spot at the railway station where he sold flowers from buckets to passer’s by on their way to catch a train . It gave him an opportunity to look for her in the passing crowds . He first saw her face about a year after his wife died .
At that particular time he was going through a hard time with grief and loss . Then one day as he was returning home on the train after finishing work a lady stepped off the train and as she turned around she looked at him .
He had this weird experience .
It felt as if time stood still and he somehow he recognised her as someone he had seen or been with somewhere before .
She continued to look at him and then she smiled .
Then after that day
, he seen her again and again walking past in the crowd at the station . Each time he saw her he had this deja vu feeling like he had been with her in another time and place . Her face haunted him .
So there he stood everyday from dawn to dusk selling his roses in the hope she might walk past .
It was Valentines Day and already he had had sold three times as many roses , as normal which on this occasion were the more expensive long stemmed roses .
There was only one left and he was getting ready to go home when she made an appearance .
He was so happy to see her .
All the people he had met that day had bought roses for that someone special in their lives . This rose was the one he wanted to give to her his mystery lady .
She walked past and he called our ,
“Don’t wait until it’s too late . Maybe this rose could change the colour of your day .“
She stopped and walked back l his way . Somehow he knew her but didn’t know from where .
He reached her the rose and she took it from him and said ,
“ My husband had never bought me
any flowers and now it’s too late . Thank you “
Her words cut him to the core .
He never bought his wife any flowers while she was alive . The only flowers he could remember were the flowers at her funeral .
At that moment he had another deja vu feeling .
Then he said ,
“ I hope the rose I gave you will make up for the ones your husband never bought for you. “
She smiled and then a train arrived and before another word was spoken a busy crowd walked past and in that moment she was gone .
He had only been with her for a moment but in his heart he knew it wouldn’t be the last . He vowed to
keep coming back again just to see her face . That night he had a dream that he was standing waiting as she came walking towards him in a wedding gown .
She was holding the rose he gave her . Then she said to him ,
“ Every rose you sold to passers by makes up for all the flowers you never gave me . Until we meet again my love ”
A choir of angels were singing and she clenching the rose in her teeth and he awoke from the dream with a strong fragrance of roses in the room . The scent of roses had remained for a week and he had a wonderful peace in his life that remained with him the great of his life .
He never seen the mystery lady again and remained there in his usual place selling roses from buckets everyday . During his life he had brought happiness to many people with his roses and on the day of his funeral people had said , they had never seen as many flowers before in their life as those that were donated and brought with the coffin .
He was buried with his wife and a statue was made placed at the railway station as a tribute to him .
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