Forever, Laura Smith [good books for high schoolers TXT] 📗

watches the shadows huddling against the floral wallpaper. Stars look in at his greying face. A hot August moon in the open window. Soft as silence, quiet as apple blossoms falling, gentle as Ellen's dimpled smile. Ellen's same sad glad smile standing there by his bed. Faithful Ellen, waiting.
     'Do you want me now?'
     Yes! Dear sweet God - yes!
     He says 'I can play now, Ellen, If you like. I'm finally, properly dead.'
     'I'm glad. I've been waiting for such a long time!'
     Jim rising from his bed, leaving his seventy-six years between the laundered sheets. Soaring through the moonlight with Ellen in his arms, the pair of them shooting like comets into Eternity while the clock in the parlour stops.
     Forever and forever. Imprint

Publication Date: 03-21-2010

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