S.R. Shores

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“The Pianist & The Mobster” by S.R. Shores

Submitted to Contest #149

On a good day, my mother would say she loved my father; but on a bad day, when she was pouring wine down her gullet, she’d say she wished she had never met him at all. As my father had left when I was approximately two years old, any knowledge of him had to come from the two people in my life that knew him: my mother and my grandfather. My mother rarely talked about him, so the most information I could pull out of her was that he liked music and that the locked office in our house was his. It was only after my mother died that my grandfather...

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"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time." - Mark Twain I felt it was a waste to keep all the tales in my head locked away. Here's to hoping that they'll leave a lasting impression!