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Submitted to Contest #255
Rex has gone to get her from the airport. I was supposed to go with him, but slept in. He left a note saying he didn’t want to wake me, but really, it was my punishment for last night. Sunlight hits the windscreen, flashing in my eyes for a moment. The winter sun hangs low in the cold blue sky, not a cloud in sight. Surely, it's a sign of the occasion: my baby girl, back home. Gosh, I haven't seen her for over three years. How will she have changed, my beautiful girl? Will Time have marked her? Will she bear traces of the life she's lived wi...
Submitted to Contest #253
There'd been no warning. That’s what was so strange. None at all. One moment smiling, and then… Sitting in his armchair, Basil stared at her photo. Something so big - so life-changing and catastrophic - there should’ve been a warning. Some tremor in the earth, or darkening of the sky, to herald her departure from the world. But it was just an ordinary day. A day like any other. The sun was out, the sky a brilliant azure, weightless above their heads as they'd negotiated the gap in the bramble. Basil had held Rosemary’s hand to help her over ...
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