Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Based on the page in "Details" would you read a novel that expands upon this story? critique welcome

“May I entrust God in His unfailing love and care with the fate of those whom I love”, congregation prays. Most of their voices lift loudly with sentiment save for the back pew where Emma sits. The elders at the front of her pew hold little stock in this as their loved ones have either gone on or never existed at all. Emma’s own need for this prayer’s strength will not allow her voice to rise above a whisper. She stares at the blurred words of her tiny prayer book knowing that God is the only one she can trust with this. Her heart pounds into her head and her thoughts refuse to stop. Mothers and war widows have the sacred right to grief and hysteria, but she what does she have other than a costume broach and a memory known to herself and one other?

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