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Waiting For His Return
by A.F. Stewart

She stands at the window every twilight, waiting. The third apartment below the rooftop, in the cornice tower of the building. She is a hollow shell without him, but he never comes. He left her long ago, trapped in her own emotions.
There is no breeze in the room, but it is cold. The fireplace is empty, all forgotten ashes, but she remembers. She stares at the wall behind it, the plaster and brick so carefully put in place. Their wedding picture used to hang on the wall. She turns back to the window and watches the sunset.
In the darkness, she sighs. He never comes. Yet, she feels one day he will, drawn back here by his own actions, by the blood he spilt when he slammed her head into the mantel. She floats across the room, her ghostly form slipping into the wall to rejoin her buried bones.
One day he would return.
One day she’ll have her revenge.

Fiction © Copyright A.F. Stewart
Image courtesy of Pixabay.com

More from A.F. Stewart:

Visions and Nightmares

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Watch Isobel summon the faerie to solve her problem of an unwanted husband.
Shiver as Doctor Killbride experiments with corpses to create life from death.
All that and more await within the pages.

Ten stories. Ten women.
Who will survive? Who will fall? And who will succumb to their inner evil?
Find out in Visions and Nightmares.

Warning: This book contains disturbing scenes that may be upsetting to some readers.

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