The inspiration:
A story:
She smiled at her son, and as she reached up to hug him she thought of the happy infant he had been. His fall off his first two-wheeler, the broken arm, scribbled birthday cards to her, and Little League trophies, his face as he saw his bride approach and the excitement in his voice when he told her of his first child. He looked down at her, smiling, guessing her thoughts.
A hand was patting her awake, the machine was turned off, someone hustling out of the room carrying a silvered basin.
“All done. Thank you for choosing Planned Parenthood.”
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Now, your turn.
“Are you sure that’s all you want? We have a great price this week on livers if you buy them by the pound.”
I can’t follow an act like that Darleen.
It is a strange upsidedown world when one must resort to listening to Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder just in an attempt to cheer up the general mood.
Damn perfect, Darleen.
However, Epador is quite correct: it’s so well-done that it really can’t be topped.
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I usually, and deliberately, avoid politics in my Friday Fiction.
But revelations this week were just too overwhelming.
In times like the horrors of these last weeks – there is only one Mahler symphony a person must listen to: Mahler 2 (“Resurrection”): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsn4SrnFxUw
Preferably in a quiet place where you won’t be interrupted.
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