Breeding Ground by Sarah Pinborough

Author:Sarah Pinborough
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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section made up of two lines of parking bays to accommodate the shoppers that converged there during the daytimes and especially on Saturdays. These were normally full, but as we turned the corner I could see only three or four cars stranded there, and it would seem that as with most of the rest of the animal kingdom, the human race had stayed in the comfort of their own homes to die. Or change. Which pretty much amounted to the same thing for those of us that were left behind.

“Where’s the chemist? Does anyone know?” Katie sounded tired, and I’d noticed dark circles gathering under her eyes as the day wore on. Nigel had taken over her role as support for Dave as the older man had got progressively weaker, but had remained silent on the journey, and it was still Katie that had given Dave the odd word of encouragement and support as he desperately tried not to show how much he was suffering.

“I think there’s one at the other end of the street. This bit’s all furniture shops and cafes.” I kept to myself that the reason I knew it so well was that Chloe had dragged me up here to choose pretty much all our furniture, wanting something a little more personal than what the huge warehouses in the Milton Keynes shopping centre had to offer. Another pang of loneliness and heartache stabbed inside, and I hoped that there would be a time when I felt safe and secure enough to allow some time for all the grief inside to come out and then allow me to keep her close inside. I needed it, and I felt I was cheating Chloe by not getting rid of some of the pain so I could then work on savouring our memories and committing them to a safe place in my mind. Surely that’s what the grieving process

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