Jeff sensed their empathy as he recalled the loss of physical sensation and the absence of fear.

Feedback from the invisible audience strengthened as he remembered his awareness of others, the unheard words understood.

A surge of shared understanding reached him along with the sound of the Crematorium oven closing.

Jim has been a member of a Writing Circle for just over a year. He initially wrote this story as a 250-word story before adapting it to the 50-word format.