A Story in the Brother & Sister Love Universe
A nuclear family in present day! The kids go to Catholic Private School and start a discussion between themselves. Some codes refer to later chapters - patience!
This one is based on an old elegy, and because of that, the style of the story is very different from that which I normally use. I hope you enjoy it anyway. (Any guesses on what it is based?)
Hannah works as a secretary with an investment company. Shirley, a member of the marketing team, leaves the company and Hannah decides to ask her boss if she can take Shirley's place at the company's upcoming investor party.
Fourteen months after her husband Bill's sudden death, Deniece spends a morning in the grip of old habits of grief — watching an empty doorway, listening for a truck that will never pull into the driveway, unable to wash his last worn clothes or move his boots from where they still sit by the door. Her friend Pam checks in with fresh coffee and quiet company, and later returns to sit with her as Deniece finally opens a shoebox of old photographs she didn't know existed, glimpsing decades of her