Tag: cremation

• Last Respects

  The polished walnut coffin ploughed its wavering progress through the rain, a galleon borne up like ocean by six solemn shoulders in long black coats.  Before it were the doors of the crematorium, a softly lit beacon in the grey morning, from within which harbour’s safe embrace a rich contralto voice intoned the ‘Eriskay Love Lilt’. …

  frederick anderson

  January 21, 2016

  Short Stories, Uncategorized

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