
Memories of summers past have faded but the image of our cabin through the rear window remains; the last summer we’d spend there together.
Shortly after returning home Dad was diagnosed with the cancer that would take his life five months later; leaving an empty chair at our family table.
We tried for a short time the following summer but the sadness that consumed us proved to much for Mom; we’d never return to the cabin in the woods again.
Written for Week 296 of Sonya’s Three Line Tales challenge. Photo credit: Nathan Dumlao via Unsplash.
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