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Dying Embers by Jake Rivers ©

NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD

I sat on the floor staring at the dying embers. The coals from the large fire I'd built earlier were coated with a fine gray ash ... as the exquisite thirty-four-year-old single malt was tinged with the same, more than faint, taste of ashes. The fire - gloriously hot with the popping, almost explosive sound of the pockets of burning resin - had been laughing at me, providing a jeering counterpoint to my pain.

Now the logs were only embers, their very soul sacrificed to provide me with a meager comfort; that sacrifice mimicking the sudden death of what I had falsely, foolishly even, believed and accepted - without question - had been a love for the ages.

Wait ... a sudden flare up of hopeful flame, flashing even as the structure of the fire collapsed, glinted off the fool's gold of the ring properly located on my third finger, left hand. I held that ring up in front of my eyes - that ring that had never left my finger in those twenty-six years of marriage. Where was the happiness so joyfully promised ... lo those many years ago? Where was the love implicit with the sliding oh so carefully onto my hand in that blessed sacrament of marriage?

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