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Weekly Contest #294
Love doesn’t need words. My father never said he loved me. Dad came crashing up the cellar steps, negotiating his way through the doorway carrying something hefty hidden underneath an old coal sack. He never slept, my dad. From early mornings he worked long hard shifts in the local foundry, then spent the nights crashing about in the cellar on one project or another. This project involved a lot of sawing and hammering late into the night. Dad was unaware of the level of noise he was making. It disturbed the neighbours on account of our littl...
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