Snow Angel
Waiting for you
I feel the tears on your face bleeding into my heart as you stare out the back window of our house and I know you’re thinking of me. The bittersweet memories this snow covered landscape brings so clearly to your soul are also etched into mine. Can you feel me, Papa, like I can feel you? Can you see me like I can see you? I’m right here, Papa, standing in the snow, under the old apple tree waiting for you.
Open your heart to the good memories we shared in this garden. Remember that you said this garden was my kingdom and that I was your Queen. Remember us underneath the apple tree in summer as you read your book while I would sleep in the grass beside you. I was always beside you, following your every footstep. Remember me following you around as you cut the grass in the summer or remember us rolling around in the snow together every winter.
Winter holds my favourite memories of us; that’s why I’ve come to you now. I need you to feel me and know that I’m here waiting for you. We will be together again when your time comes; this I promise you.
Use your heart to look closely under the apple tree and I will be there. Remember the last words you said to me. Remember our unconditional love.
Remember that you said, forever you will be my human and forever joined together we would be.
About the Creator
Gerald Holmes
Born on the east coast of Canada. Travelled the world for my job and discovered that kindness is the most attractive feature in any human.
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Frostbite
Engulfed in the midnight blizzard, I was nothing but another snowflake in the wind. The unrelenting cold enters every pore of my body. Even through three layers of clothing there’s no way to stop it. All I can do is keep moving and hope the exertion will slow down the inevitable long enough to find shelter from the storm. The screaming wind, howling in my face, turns the icy snow into shards of glass that could break through exposed skin, or thin clothing, like tiny bullets. Looking down at my shredded gloves, I can feel the throbbing cold in my fingertips and know it’s only a matter of time before frostbite sets in. I need to find shelter and I need to find it now.
By Gerald Holmes6 months ago in Fiction
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Congrats on Top Story!🥳
Sensational work! Keep up the excellence—congrats!
Oh, sweetheart.
Beautiful and evocative little micro Gerald. Well done! ☺️👏
That’s awesome 😍
So beautiful ❤️
Love is bittersweet. You brought me quickly to a meaningful place and held me there. Thank you.
mournful, plaintive and beautiful in its sadness - congrats Gerald!
Aww this was beautiful!💖Congrats on top story!! 💖
Back to say congrats on Top Story, this is so well deserved my friend!! 😊
Very well written Gerald
Gorgeous words, Gerald. 🥰
Beautiful and evocative. Congrats on TS!
Simply exquisite!
What a tribute- truly lovely in both content and words nothing <3 congrats on the top story!
Beautiful work, Gerald. Another one to add to your growing list of amazing stories. Congrats!
Congrats!!! 🎈
Back to say congratulations, I knew this would be a top story
Touching tribute, Gerald.
Wow, Gerald, this one really gutted me! Fantastic writing, my friend! A very, very well-deserved Top Story!
There ya go. Congrats on the TS.
Gerald, this just absolutely crushed me (in the best way)!! So many tears and such a heartfelt story!! I love this and can't express just how much I needed to read this!! Great work my friend!!
Wow, this portrays the outer cold in the story and the photos, and the reader can feel the sadness of Papa and the hope of his girl.
You captured this extremely well, Gerald. Forever in our hearts, forever in theirs.
You hit all the right notes with this one Gerald. Love the beginning, you can feel the longing in her tone the desperate plea. The reasons that follow cement the story.