ELAINE
Darkening clouds float overhead, telling me I should make my way home. And so I do.
As I walk home a gentle breeze pushes the flowers in an elegant manner.
I hope they have this in heaven. I think to myself, kind of chuckling afterwards.
At the same time I get home my parents and Maggie are leaving to head into town for their monthly shopping spree. They asked if I wanted to go, but I had declined their offer.
Inside, I stare at the calender taped on to the brightly colored wall. It's been three weeks and six days since the diagnostic.
Only 2 months and a day left of my life.
Life wasn't good to me. But I wish it had been.
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The Tragic Life of Elaine
Ficción General"Screw cancer." She never knew that she'd be in a car accident that day. She never knew that at the hospital, the doctors would soon discover that she has cancer and a few months, if that, of life left. But Elaine doesn't want to waste her now shor...
