aliceandmolly

by Anna G. Watson

He was dying.

My fingers laced his.

“I love you,” he said. “I always have.”

From his fog, he painted me six words. Six words that formed a scene of a child and a father.

She reaches up. He reaches back.

Six seconds on the blade edge of time.

Category: memoir

2 Comments on “”

wordsfromanneli
April 6, 2019

You tell a lot with a very few words. Well done.
- Annie G. Watson
  April 6, 2019
  
  Thank you, words from Anneli. x

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