Creative Busyness

Cesar has been sick for many years. His lungs are weak, so are his kidneys.

Often, he gets an infection, and goes to the hospital. Some stays are short, some are long… He knows how scared his wife is of losing him, so he fights to always come back home to her.

She gets ill too. They both go to the hospital.

She perishes in a couple of days, while he is still fighting to get well.

He goes back to an empty house.

A new infection strikes, but he is done fighting. This time he does not recover.

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This post was written in response to January 9: Story Challenge in 99-words, hosted by Carrot Ranch.

The story is real and the protagonists are my parents, who left us on February 6th and April 15th 2023.

(The picture does not show any of them, though. That was taken from Pixabay)