Memories of Home
Special events will always remain special.
The church hall was always pristine, the people gathering there for a free meal were anything but. They patiently shuffled along from station to station, trays in hand collecting a warm meal. The woman in front of Jack tripped on the partially detached sole of her shoe and fell to the floor. Immediately, Jack reached to help her up and saw her face for the first time.
“Becky? Is that you?”
“Jack, oh my! Senior prom was the last time.”
“Yes, you’re right. Let’s get our food and catch up.”
“But I’m such a mess.”
“You’re still beautiful to me.”
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Mark Gagnon
My life has been spent traveling here and abroad. Now it's time to write.
I have three published books: Mitigating Circumstances, Short Stories for Open Minds, and Short Stories from an Untethered Mind. Unmitigated Greed is do out soon.
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Departure from Solitude
Fourteen months have passed since humanity cast me adrift. My waking hours are divided between tending to the equipment that keeps me alive, roaming the lunar landscape, and staring into space. Living on a massive rock that lacks atmosphere offers me a vista that no other living human has experienced. Of course, I’m not alive according to those in control of the government that abandoned me. All of us living on Moon Base Alpha were reported killed by an asteroid strike to avoid the cost of returning the two remaining explorer’s home. It was a lie they told to everyone who would listen, but it was only one of hundreds of lies the population was fed.
By Mark Gagnonabout a year ago in Fiction
Comments (3)
Oh! how lovely!
Plot twist, Becky actually planned all of this. She has an ulterior motive. Hahahahha. I'm nuts!
So touching, it would be good to know their back story. How they both got there. At least they found each other.