In the silence of the room, he held a wilted geranium, his wife's favourite flower. It was all that remained of a shattered life, the fault of a single event that had swept away their serenity and left him with nothing but grief.
It's her fault, he repeated in his mind, blinded by rage, as a dark thought crept in like a poisonous snake.
He looked at the withered flower, a symbol of what might have been, and felt the storm grow within him.
He wanted to take revenge... but he stood still, dropping the geranium, fragile and broken like his dreams.
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Like a shore of lights, in a dark night
Short Story[Writober 2024 | pumpFLOWER] 31 stories for 31 characters, in a journey of thoughts, memories and events from the world of "Rotes Band" and "Tamashii no Teien". "Life is made up of days that mean nothing and moments that mean everything." (Anonymous...
