Eddie's Demise 2009

The darkness was closing in. Death had brought its calling card, black trimmed, red lettering. Eddie didn't see his past life flash before his tired eyes, just the green curtains moving in the breeze from the open window. A dog barked, someone called along the corridor of the nursing home!; a car backfired. His funeral he knew would be a small affair, with only the matron and the vicar and the goody-goody two shoes woman who brought the afternoon tea, there. He had no idea where his wife or daughter were, he'd not seen them for nearly fifty years. Come in boat 22, your time is up. He closed her eyes and moved through 87 years of lies