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Weekly Contest #369
(The story contains sensitive themes of grief and loss) I wake up to 39 messages from our family WhatsApp and a series of horrific pictures of our elderly mother. I am always out of step with my three English siblings, seasonally, culturally and through untimely contributions to WhatsApp threads. I had missed their weddings, the births of nephews and nieces, the deaths of grandparents and other important family events, but had accepted that was the price I had to pay for living in Australia. I had regrets, but did not feel it viscerally. My...
Weekly Contest #354
I confess that my contact with M has been reduced to an annual posting of the family newsletter. We live on opposite sides of a large city. Our lives have diverged since we first met more than forty years ago. M would sometimes drop into our old home – just passing – having ridden on her motorbike with her little dog Luna. The visits were semi regular so that she had met my children on occasions stretching from infancy to mid-teens. The kids loved Luna who was of an indeterminate breed, but always smartly dressed in her own scaled down lea...
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