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Day Seven: Departure

They all sit, huddled around the small waiting room, waiting for news. In one room, their grandmother is fighting for her life after a fall and a broken hip. In another, their daughter is in labor with their first grandchild. The timing couldn’t be more perfect, or more imperfect.

Both are in surgery now. A hip replacement and an emergency C-section.

The whole family is stone silent, waiting for any kind of news, except for grandpa, at the window, his lips moving in silent prayer.

Someone is making their departure tonight. Who do you save?

Nothing is Timeless

The photograph is old and faded, but she can see that they love each other. The photograph from years ago, and she doubts her parents would even recognize themselves after all the years.

Time is a bitch. 

In the Fridge

There is a dead woman’s food in the fridge, 

And it’s starting to stink.

There’s a dead woman’s food in the fridge,

But no one can bear to get rid of it, 

Either because it is the last part of her,

Or because no one has time.

There is a dead woman’s food in the fridge,

And like her,

It is rotting.