Time and Circumstance, Part 3: Conclusion

“Mrs. Gordon?”
It was Happy Dale’s manager. Richard Rhodes stood at the door to her room. She tried to ignore him, but he was like a mosquito in his buzzing persistence.
“Mrs. Gordon, I need to know what happened in the lunch room today.”
The living reminder of the best and worst days of her life was what [...]

Time and Circumstance, Part 2

Angela loathed the lunch room. It was anything but lively. Some of the homes where she used to volunteer had daily chatter. Not so in the Happy Dale Happy Senior Residential Home. Community gatherings of any sort were grim. HDHSRH had a high mortality rate due to the makeup of its population.
It was the place [...]

Time and Circumstance, Part 1

Angela stared at the ceiling. Dead bugs dotted the light fixture above her bed. A spider busily scampered along the glass lip. She had never tolerated it of any lamp in her home. When she grew frail, she had hired a girl to clean the house for her.
“Mrs. Gordon?”
A chipper nurse entered the room. Angela [...]