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Weekly Contest #351
It was a rainy afternoon. I was walking down the alley, on my way back home. Everything was just as usual, nothing interesting, nothing that would sparkle the slightest bit of colour into this pale world. It has been this way since...Adam stopped. It was useless thinking about it. Nothing he'd do would make things better, nothing would undo what has happened; nothing would bring her back. His mother passed, and nothing would solve that.Back in the day, he would do anything possible to try to make her smile, even if it was only for a brief mo...
Alice was on her way home, returning from a long, tedious period at school. It is always like that: for some reason, every morning, Dad takes her to that big place called "school", in which she has to spend an enormous amount of time when she could be playing in the backyard instead. Why does Dad do that? Whenever she asked, he would always reply with, "Because it is fun! I know you like it, don't you?" No, I do not!But today, there was something different. For a brief moment, only for a very little, tiny moment, there was something... not b...
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