Hope's Wrist Watch
by Tony Marinho
Prose
Published: 2011
Pages: 202
ISBN: 978-978-8135-37-1
Description
I want to be alone.' No, you don't, '... You only think you want to be alone because you don't want to fight...Who is this silly girl who can read his thoughts, he thinks... Onlt then, as she smiles up at him in encouragement does he notice that she has no hands. And she was trying to get him out of depression and despair he had sunk into... By way of welcome and introduction she waves a hand at him, only it is not a hand but an arm ending in a wrist... The man had asked if i wanted a wrist watch. He cut off my right hand.. 'He said I'd watch my wrist everyday and remember him. Wrist Watching it was called...'