His Widow
"I wanted to hit him. I wanted to scream at him. I wanted him to look at me and see what he had done. I did manage to punch him once before hands dragged me away, voices shouting, the world dissolving into chaos"
I fell to the floor.
"From there, I watched my brother still holding our mother, refusing to let go, whispering her name like saying it enough times would bring her back".
That image never left me.
"My mother."
"She was always there. Every day. Every moment. She filled our lives with her presence. And she died like this — suddenly, violently, without warning".
"I never wished for her death. But if I ever had to wish for it, I would have wished she lived long enough to see my childre