Tag: bereavement
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Memoriam
This week, in the home that had been hers for twelve-and-a half eventful years, Honey, our much-loved Labrador, passed peacefully away. She had been ailing for some time with various afflictions which attacked her mobility and were causing her pain. It was time. She gave us all of her life. Until her last few weeks…
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Out of Darkness
The pavement is narrow here. They elbow against him as they pass. He remonstrates; they laugh at him, the children. Nervous laughter, child laughter. “I’m not frightened of an old man!” One of them says. “He looks like a paedophile, du’nn’ee? You’re a paedophile, mister! Dirty old ****!” Maybe it is a conceit, he thinks,…