Valerie Silk-Kremenak

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“The Haunting of Goodbye” by Valerie Silk-Kremenak

Submitted to Contest #272

The recent years of ups and downs had inevitably led to this day, but it didn’t make the hurt any easier to comprehend. After the wake concluded, my family gathered around the casket together to have a last look at our matriarch before leaving the funeral home; the funeral mass and burial would be the next morning. We wiped away tears and went home to spend the longest night of our lives awaiting the final goodbye. When my family arrived at the church the next morning, the funeral director announced that the casket was open in a small room t...

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