The Other Side of the Street
Compassion has no type
This is a story of 100 words. When you stay for more than 30 secs, your visit counts as a read.
Word of the day: Hardware
For the first time in weeks, Dennis looks forward to a night of fun. But as he closes the hardware store and heads out with the boys, he glimpses Mr. Smith sitting by himself in the coffee shop on the other side of the street.
“Don’t do it,” warns Mathias. “He’s only going to mope about his dead daughter.”
But Dennis knows grief as a funny guest.
“I’ll catch up, guys.”
“It’s your funeral.”
Dennis enters the shop and quietly takes a seat.
Mr. Smith looks up. He shows Dennis the photo of a little girl.
“My daughter… she died.”
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