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Category:
Young Adult/Teen
Publisher: R.L.Mitchley
Type: Fiction
Pages: 30
Copyright: Sept 18, 2018
Price: $0.99 (eBook)
My memory of Elias is intimate but brief; I asked him, "what happened, where are you taking me, who are you? Tell me!"
In a calm voice; "Sara hush, you died.
Suddenly, the second floor gave way, imploding onto the first floor family room. By then the whole castle was nothing more than a blazing furnace consuming everything… As the four family members collapsed with it in one thunderous impact, it rolled them onto their sides, leaving them charred and huddled together. I heard faint groans nixed with painful cries, even amongst the roaring fire and crashing beams; their bodies ill-covered in ash and chunks of red hot embers, with steam emitting from within…there was very little life left. Another fat tear welled up in my eye. I rushed over to them, pushing aside anything that would hinder me from holding their hands; but this time I didn’t hold onto their hands! Instead I encompassed them with my arms and body, as a mother hen would her chicks. Pg.4 I meant to protect them, so I held them tight -even tighter- as if to somehow summon life back into their exasperated bodies; but in vain…there was no more life, no more breath… only the chill of a tainted finality; Yet at the same time there was peace, even with hell-fire burning all around us… and though I was only partly aware, I felt a comforting hand staid on my shoulder, and I heard a soft, audible voice say: “Gather them up and bring them back home.”
Excerpt
Graphic descriptive narrative on some stories. Other stories include, a look into a PTSD victim, Reincarnation & a man's return from heart trauma.
other stories include; Hanging with Stanley, mailboxes, Inward Neglect, Back Seat Driver, the underside of ice
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