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Submitted to Contest #298
Elias stood by the cliff's edge where the sea lapped far below, a jagged memory echoing in every wave. He wasn’t sure why he had come—was it to honour Clare, to remember her, or to ask her permission? The question haunted him, twisting in his gut. Each time he visited, he hoped for clarity, some sign that it was okay to let the ache soften, to let another woman’s laughter fill the silence Clare had left behind. But the answer never came easily. He stared out to sea and asked the question again, not expecting a reply, but needing to speak it ...
Submitted to Contest #285
CHAPTER 1 — A GUARDIAN OF SECRETSA LIFE REMEMBERED: AMBROSE GRATTON, OAMThe year is 2025. My good friend and lifelong colleague, Ambrose Gratton, OAM, has died. Mid-January, in fact. I, along with other ex-military counterintelligence operators from all three Services of Australia's Armed Forces, went to Ambrose’s funeral and wake. We talked a lot about our past work and about Ambrose in particular. Not that surprising, really, since it was, after all, his last hurrah. The thought of him, reposed and entombed, evoked many memories and mixed ...
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