The cancer-stricken girl was munching on the fortune cookie grandma baked that morning. Finding no fortune, she smiled a smile – the kind that would heal any broken soul.
“The fortune-cookie-fairy owes you a fortune, precious.”
When she breathed her last that night, grandma found solace in her escape from suffering.
Aneena Elza Binod is a nineteen-year-old who became a Gold Award Finalist in the Queen’s Commonwealth Essay Contest 2019. Her hobbies range from taekwondo to chess. She loves compering and photography. She writes on Wattpad and YourQuote. She is a Tripoto blogger as well. She lives with her family in Kerala, the southernmost state of India. See more at wattpad.com/myworks/245532022-reconnected.