Sunday Scribblings

When Chloe saw Susan walking toward her, she felt some relief and took her first deep breath of the morning. Positioned at the entrance to the mall’s large, centrally-situated cafe, she watched Susan navigate the throng of window shoppers.
Chloe could not remember a time in her life when she had not known Susan. [...]

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“Leaving?” she responded breathlessly to the curve ball fate had just pitched directly to her. “No, I’m not leaving. I’ll be back in a few moments.”
“Oh, good!” he said genially. “I was hoping we could catch up a bit.”

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The telephone began ringing just as she closed the door to her hotel room and started down the hallway toward the elevator. She never even considered not turning back to answer, confident that the call was either from her son or Dennis.
“Hey, Mom,” her son said cheerily before she even had a chance to [...]

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She knew what she had to do — and that she needed to do it now. Procrastinating would only make the task ahead more difficult — for both of them.
Her circumstances — and the future of her unborn child — required that she be fearless now. Decisive. Determined. Protective.
As she showered [...]

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“Are you coming, Grandma?” she called up the stairs lightly.
“Yes, dear,” was the response. “I’ll be down in just a few moments. I’m moving a little slower than normal this morning,” the old woman giggled. “I’m not complaining, though. You just sit tight and be there in a flash.”
“All right, Gran,” [...]

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The silence between them was interrupted only by the sound of his reaching into his pocket for a ring of keys. He set them on the table.

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For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

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That night, the ringing telephone jostled her awake with news that their lives had changed forever.

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It seemed as though they had been sitting in the car for hours. The weight of the topic, her son’s expectations, and her responsibilities bore down on her, making her feel as though she could not breathe and tempting her to simply open the car door and run as far and fast as she [...]

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