The Gravestone
WD February Flash Fiction Challenge — Day 28
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This is my Day Eighteen entry to the Writer’s Digest February Flash Fiction Challenge. The prompt is to write a one-sentence story.
On his gravestone it is written: John Edward Gibson, 1934 — 2012 — two numbers containing an entire life between them, but leaving out that he was born, grew up, went to school (including college), fell in love, married, fathered three children, started a successful business, went to church, served his city (as both a city councilman and mayor), retired, became ill with cancer, fought long and hard to live, lost the war, and died — all within the geographical bounds of the city of Huntsville in Texas, all within the bookends of those two numbers, 1934 and 2012 — an entire life filled with love and hope, happiness and heartache, pain and sorrow — and all we get are two numbers.
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