OLWG

This week’s prompts are:

1. living with your ghost
2. he fell asleep and didn’t put out the candle
3. will it always be this hard?

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Joe was exhausted after the day’s shopping trip. He fell asleep and didn’t put out the candle. His wife Mona loved those Bath and Body three wick candles and had them all over the house. This night one had burned hot on a stack of crumpled writing papers Joe was supposed to have put in the trash bin. A horrible happening from a careless act made Joe’s wife a widow in nothing flat.

Joe’s wife Mona was trying to be a writer. She thought joining a book club would be an inspiration. She loved meeting with the club. When Mona came home from her book club she found her home up in flames. The firefighters could not save Joe and Mona was devastated.

A few months later Mona met with her book club again, and remembering the last time they all met, the fire, etc, she started crying and asked her friends, “will it always be this hard?” There were no answers that consoled her.

That same night Mona was fitfully trying to sleep. She was housed in the guest house on their property that was saved from the flames. Mona tossed the pillows on the floor and sat up frustrated on the edge of the bed. She felt a presence next to her and an arm around her shoulders. “No, Mona, it won’t always be this hard. I’ll be here when you need me”. Then suddenly the presence disappeared. Mona found that if she thought hard enough, Joe would appear and that’s how she ended up writing a book about her circumstances entitled, “Living With Your Ghost”.

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OLWG# 391- Thirsty Sailors