for Six Sentence Stories where the given word is Box
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“Spend time with her” our doctor said, “she doesn’t have long”, he said.
I’d not planned an early retirement but a few days later I went to collect my bits and pieces from work.
“I put your things in a box,” my secretary said, “I left it in your old office”, she said.
I’m alone in my office, it’s the same but it’s different because on my desk there’s a picture, a picture in a frame of a young girl wearing a patterned dress of pink and green.
I look into my box and see a picture, a picture in a frame of my soulmate, she’s sitting on a sandy beach beneath a sky of blue and gold.
I pick up my box and as I turn and walk away, Tom Wait’s gravelly voice murmurs in my head, ‘I’m gonna love you ‘til the wheels come off, oh yeah…’
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Thanks to Denise at GirlieOnTheEdge for hosting.