Saturday, December 5, 2009

Story

0Men start life with no map to guide their journey. It is only as time leads them that they can begin to write their story. 1Man's life is a book of blank pages waiting to be filled, so here goes the first step where it going to lead, he will never close his eyes. 2But if he does, each time he opens them the slate will be wiped clean. A new journey will begin and a new page will be designed.
3Today's page opens on a cold, windy afternoon. The sky is a cruel blue unmasked by clouds or shelter from the sun. The man is alone. Silent.
4Jeff's secrets remain unspoken behind his graying beard. The failed marriages, the drugs. Letting his mother die. Make it right, he thinks. 5But how could he? It was too late. She was gone, he had become an addict, the situation was simply hopeless; unless...