protagonize: reading story: (in story 'The Millionth Tear was Happy')

Get more out of Protagonize! Login or sign up as member.

...from walking with me.

We must make our own way across Belgium and into France where a woman has told my father she can help. I do not know how long it will take, but I know there will be soup and hot water, a bed to rest and father says feathers fill the blankets in France. My mother repeats “ Not much further” again I believe her and still we are walking, a warm tear falls on my shoulder, so hot it seems to burn my skin, and we walk. At night it is so cold we must sleep in a barn on horse manure to keep warm. My mother holds me under her coat to keep the filth off my cloths, she is warm as I fall to sleep, she holds me so close I can feel her heart beating against my back. In the morning I wake still clasped in my mothers arms, I can not feel her heart. My father tells me we must hurry; he tearfully removes me from her grasp and covers her body with his long black coat. “Let her rest she is very tired, we must hurry before the sun”

SHOW ALL PREVIOUS CHAPTERS SUBSCRIBE TO STORY FEED

Share this story Jump to latest post View entire story Add to favourites back to previous chapter

1 COMMENT ABOUT THIS STORY RSS

Author Guidance for this Story

Sylvia is an aged nun living in a time of religious and sociological unheaval.

updated Oct 5, 2008 by wickedmirror

POSTING GUIDELINES

First off, if you don't understand how this all works, please check out our help page.
It should answer most of your basic questions.

All authors are responsible for their own content. We don't write this stuff. You do. So feel free to use a little adult humour, but please don't go overboard, or we'll have to flag the story as mature content.
Second, if you're adding a branch to an existing story, make sure that the new branches you create are individually appealing. This makes it easier to keep the storyline alive and kicking.
If you're writing a collaborative story, try not to write more than one or two segments of the same story at a time. It keeps the story fresher and funnier if you let others play along. :)
Posts need to be at least 140 characters long. That's about three average sentences, not too painful, but it prevents spamminess.
Finally, try not to kill off the main character in a story... at least, permanently. It can be pretty detrimental to the storyline — it's also useless, as someone is bound to revive the character.
If you find a problem somewhere, or see a bad posting, click the red report button on a story or user profile and report it to us!
Note: Please be careful if you spent a long period of time writing the same branch. It's entirely possible that someone else is completing the same branch as you, and in that case, since we don't lock posts while you edit, whoever posts first will "win" and you'll have to move your post elsewhere.