They showed up at dusk on Mother’s Day with cake and ice cream. Three greasy-haired boys. The handsome one said, “Our own mothers are dead. We hope you don’t mind.”
Mind, she thought. What was there to mind? Death, cake, inconsolable boys?
“We want to celebrate your life in reverence.”
Over the years Bob Thurber’s work has received a long list of awards and prizes. His most recent book is a collection of brief stories titled “Nothing But Trouble”. His first novel “Paperboy: A Dysfunctional Novel” will be rereleased in May 2016. Visit BobThurber.net.
A heartfelt tale or something far more sinister – I liked the it-might-not-be-what-it-seems reading in this one.