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Annie After
Annie always said she was “handling things beautifully,” though no one had asked her to. In the days after Paul’s death, she moved through the house with the restless energy of someone who needed an audience. Lockdown meant there would be no funeral, no gathering, no public display of devotion. The absence of spectators unsettled her. She needed a stage, and grief—real or imagined—was her current favored script.
By Julie O'Hara - Author, Poet and Spiritual Warrior3 days ago in Fiction
Louise After
Louise didn’t attend a funeral because there wasn’t one. It was lockdown, and gatherings were forbidden. Paul’s body went straight from the hospital to the crematorium, and Annie collected the ashes in an urn she had made years earlier in a ceramic class. It was lopsided, glazed in streaky turquoise with hearts etched in the side—more craft project than vessel—and entirely wrong for him. But that was how things were done in Annie’s world: symbolism without substance, noise without meaning. And of course her name was carved in the bottom. She had to put her name on everything.
By Julie O'Hara - Author, Poet and Spiritual Warrior3 days ago in Fiction
The Last Confession of Paul Brennan
Paul Brennan had been dying for four days, though the truth was that something in him had been dying for forty years. The hospital room smelled of antiseptic and gardenias. A statute of Mother Mary on the bedstand and a cross hung over the bed. The hallway outside pulsed with the restless chatter of people who didn’t know how to sit still with death. Annie was among them—loud, frantic, and determined to turn the moment into a spectacle. She had always been that way. Aquarius sun, hurricane heart. Always trying to define the narrative that put her center stage.
By Julie O'Hara - Author, Poet and Spiritual Warrior4 days ago in Fiction
L'unico: part 5
That was all, I welcome the new employees, I hope you a good journey with us and thank you.That was the speech given by Mr Tommy Shine, a deep speech and a special face that marked and moved in a weird way the emotions of Jade and awakened some strange emotions in him, a face that he didn’t know will be a life changing face forever in the near future.
By el hariti adil4 days ago in Fiction
Fish Out Of Water
Once upon a time a little fish lived in a little pod in a great big fish city. You may be thinking that this city was underwater but you would be wrong. Strange, but true. You see our particular little fish, Harriet, was a fifth generation land dweller and so she had lost all knowledge of living in water.
By Angie Allanby4 days ago in Fiction
