Heading Home
“Telling him they were staying after all was absolutely the hardest thing she ever had to do. And she had had to do some very hard things in the last two years. He simply nodded and went back to whatever he’d been doing on his laptop. Sarah could actually see the wall come crashing down between them.
As she stood in the hallway she saw her mother standing by her bedroom door, waiting for her. It was late and her parents had retired hours earlier.
“You okay, Mom?”
Her mother looked every minute h...er seventy years when the makeup was gone and the shape wear was replaced with a sagging nightgown cinched in the middle by the belt of a favorite robe. She looked frail and vulnerable. Sarah tried to imagine her in the village in Wales where the people chose to kill their elders rather than feed them. She felt a shiver go down both arms.
“A word, darling?”
Sarah wasn’t sure she had ever felt more exhausted in her life. The two days of happiness-charged adrenalin had pushed her further and longer than she could possibly have gone on mere drugs or good intentions.MoreLess
As she stood in the hallway she saw her mother standing by her bedroom door, waiting for her. It was late and her parents had retired hours earlier.
“You okay, Mom?”
Her mother looked every minute h...er seventy years when the makeup was gone and the shape wear was replaced with a sagging nightgown cinched in the middle by the belt of a favorite robe. She looked frail and vulnerable. Sarah tried to imagine her in the village in Wales where the people chose to kill their elders rather than feed them. She felt a shiver go down both arms.
“A word, darling?”
Sarah wasn’t sure she had ever felt more exhausted in her life. The two days of happiness-charged adrenalin had pushed her further and longer than she could possibly have gone on mere drugs or good intentions.MoreLess
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