One Night : A Short Series — Part 1 — Jason

Malik Morangello
Sep 2, 2018 · 3 min read

“JASON!!” a woman screamed her voice cracking. Her son was dead. His body lay so peacefully on the hospital bed he could be sleeping. Jason’s face was pale and hollow from the illness, but if the machines weren’t off and his mother wasn’t crying and flailing in his father’s arms, as she tried to reach her son. For the entire world, Jason could simply be sleeping.

Jason saw all of this. As if he was standing in a corner of the room. He saw, more than heard, his mother cry out his name as she ran and tried to reach for him. His father had stopped her

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Nom de plume, Malik Mor. Blogger, poet, architect of strange and beautiful worlds, and tea drinker. malikmor.com Contact: malikmor@icloud.com

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