I almost forgot my purpose. I wondered if she really saw me, or if her eyes had simply wandered in my direction.
“Where are you taking him?” Her voice was free of all emotion and of all reason. “I mean, where is he going?”
That’s the question I imagined they would ask if they could.
And I’m nearly never wrong.
I couldn’t answer her. They don’t tell us things like that, if you’re wondering.
Her face remained resolute as she stroked the face of Andre’s soul. “This is the second one you’ve taken from me.” Her voice was rough but quiet.
Ashamed, I turned away from her. My job here was done.
My job is done. My job is done.
I refused to look into her eyes again.
They say that Death is heartless.
That may be, but Jeff has a heart, indeed.
Inspired by
I paused in the small apartment, gently cradling Andre’s soul in my arms. He was heavy with days unlived, the smoke of exting…
A sequel to Death and Acquiescence
About the author
Laine P. Grey
At a charming little cattle farm, near a pretty deadly lake
I got my copy of Breaking Dawn at 12:04 AM, Saturday, August 2, 2008! Oh yeah, number 15.
I am now officially in the League of Awesomeness as The Sarcastic Scribe
There are those who say that life is like a book, with chapters for each event in your life and a limited number of pages on which you can spend your time. But I prefer to think that a book is like life, particularly a good one, which is well worth staying up all night to finish. —Lemony Snicket
Start of Billy Joel song Series
http://ficlets.com/stories/36126
Start of Leningrad
http://ficlets.com/stories/37014
This summer I am reading, writing, counting days, and allowing the cat to steal my shrimp. Feel free to join in.
Most of my Ficlets are inspired by books, Billy Joel, or Jack Johnson songs.
So, if you’ve read Adverbs by Daniel Handler, then you know that each chapter is titled with a different adverb, and contains the same character names although, each story is essentially separate. The characters often repeat a phrase in another story or they mention a character that was in the previous story. That is what I’m going to do with the “Goode Callen” story, but mine will be titled with verbs. It starts with my entry in a challenge: http://ficlets.com/stories/39031
If you haven’t already, you simply must see I’m Reed Fish, In America, and Bon Voyage.
“I was born in ‘49, a Cold War kid in McCarthy times. Stop ‘em at the 38th parallel, blow those yellow reds to hell. Cold War kids were hard to kill under their desks in an air raid drill. Haven’t they heard we’ve won the war, what do they keep on fighting for?”—“Leningrad”, Billy Joel (Part of the Billy Joel Posse with T. F. Torrey, pens&feathers, and BARomero.)
Published on July 18, 2008.
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