Snapshots by Eliot Parker

Author:Eliot Parker
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Morgan James Publishing via Indie Author Project
Published: 2019-09-24T20:33:14+00:00

almost like a dare.

Mark clapped his hands together. “Good. We’re here.”

Karen removed the small mirror from her evening purse Mark removed the silver Tiffany cufflink from his white dress and checked her reflection. After tightening and pursing her shirt and pushed back the sleeve. His gold-plated wristwatch lips twice in some type of exercise, she smacked her lips shut ticked slowly under the fluorescent overhead lights.

and then pushed herself off the rear leather seat.

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Reed offered Karen a hand and helped her out of the low-sadness, frustrations, and grief over losing the baby and the slung car into the orange glow of the streetlamps in downtown fact that Mark had blended back into his normal work routine Columbus, which created a warming effect on her skin. Ahead, effortlessly after only three days. Danielle never judged Karen or Mark had already climbed the three small steps to the front made any summations about her thoughts and feelings.

door. Light filtered through a gap in the two long curtains that Now Karen had to do the same for Danielle and for Alex.

accented the funeral home’s entrance from the inside. As Karen In the days since Danielle died, Karen had wondered what it looked up, she could see stars resembling pinpricks on the black would be like for her if Mark died first. What was Alex feeling canvas sky, but none of the light seemed to filter through the after seeing his wife, his high-school sweetheart, die from a hazy night air to make any difference when she looked away.

horrible disease that wrecked her body and left him alone and As they entered through the front door of the funeral home bereft of the one person he loved more than anyone else in the and made their way down the corridor to the chapel, Karen felt world?

her legs wobble. Grief tore at her as she noticed the wide entryway A warm hand pressed into the narrow space between her to the chapel at the end of the corridor. Tears fell thickly on her shoulders. Mark’s warm press snapped Karen from the reverie, cheeks, and her voice stuck in her throat. There was still time and she looked over at her husband. With his cleft chin, to turn around and walk out, back onto the street and into the widow’s peak, the black spill of wispy hair and rinsed blue comfort and incognito existence the limousine provided. But eyes, he resembled the type of handsome man anyone might she couldn’t do that to Alex or Danielle. Especially Danielle.

encounter in a romance novel or a business textbook about how Karen reminded herself that they were more than just to resemble someone in charge of all situations.

casual visitors paying their respects. They were close friends of At the end of the hallway, an elegantly dressed man in a suit the deceased and her husband. Danielle had always been there with high-planed cheeks and wide eyes greeted them then asked for Karen.

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