Flowers for the Dead
“She leaned against him, panting with the exertion. It would have been easier for both of them if Adam had carried her, but she had protested sternly at the suggestion.
Finally, after what seemed like an eternity, they reached her deckchair and he eased her down into it, before pulling the table to within her reach.
The frail stick of a woman looking at him did not look like his gran. In the handful of months that had slipped by since they last saw each other, Ada had lost several stone.... An already slender woman, this had reduced her to a skeleton with flesh stretched over bone. Every movement seemed an effort that left her breathless.
She reached for her glass of water from the side table. Adam hurriedly handed it to her with tears in his eyes.
He had come up without his parents, his mother letting him travel alone by train after he begged and begged and begged.
“There’s something wrong,”MoreLess
Finally, after what seemed like an eternity, they reached her deckchair and he eased her down into it, before pulling the table to within her reach.
The frail stick of a woman looking at him did not look like his gran. In the handful of months that had slipped by since they last saw each other, Ada had lost several stone.... An already slender woman, this had reduced her to a skeleton with flesh stretched over bone. Every movement seemed an effort that left her breathless.
She reached for her glass of water from the side table. Adam hurriedly handed it to her with tears in his eyes.
He had come up without his parents, his mother letting him travel alone by train after he begged and begged and begged.
“There’s something wrong,”MoreLess
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