100 Word Story: Semi-Private Room

The woman in the next bed talked with her eyes open but she wasn’t awake. In the afternoons, the nurse helped her sit in a chair, tucking a hand-stitched blanket brought from home around her knees and pulling her hands together in a peaceful pose.

Then, her husband came to visit. He knelt in front of her chair, held her knotted hands, and told her how their children missed their mother. 

She looked at the wall behind his head. Then, he kissed her blonde head and left.

After days of this, I went home where my own husband was waiting.

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