Friday, June 1, 2012

Chapter Nine


Change is here
*()*()*()*

Her hair was dark from the rain and her eyes were dark with overwhelming grief.

He hated that she was standing at his doorstep, looking so desperately in need of comfort that he just couldn’t give her. 

“Can I please just talk to her…ask her if she knew anything?” she pleaded, her delicate hands reaching out as if to grab onto him.

She was a slowly sinking ship searching for something to hold her up.

“I’m sorry.  I just can’t,” he said quietly as he shut the door.

He couldn’t hold her up…he was barely able to keep himself afloat.

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