Tag: tears

• Pink Bow Untied

  

  Rain would have been more fitting. Clouds. Torrential downpours. Some freak hurricane. Not this nurturing warmth that was carried in the breeze along with the songs of springtime robins. The boys were out with their father picking up new fishing poles and getting something for lunch. Patrick felt it best that Isabella, his wife, the…

  Dan Metzger

  July 14, 2017

  Fiction, Scene, Short Story

  alcohol, baby, children, creative writing, darkness, family, father, friendship, home, house, loss, love, miscarriage, mother, motherhood, pain, relationships, sadness, scene, separation, soup, spring, tears

• Fingertips

  A slight, dry wind flowed through the trees and under the sky, pressing black dresses against long legs, making hair frayed and frazzled. Morning commuters buzzed along the streets. Oblivious to the chaos beyond the windshield. Trapped in the awful moment, a day set aside for teardrops and sorrow, a girl got out of her mother’s…

  Dan Metzger

  October 2, 2012

  Fiction, Short Story

  daughter, death, father, Fiction, funeral, sister, suicide, tears