Blue To Remember — Suzanne D. Williams

The Old Man's Story "The Boy's in the dream. It eats at me, his death. I don't know why. There were so many others." - The Old Man never got over the Boy's death. Haunted by nightmares of a cruel war that snuffed out so many lives and crippled by his time in the prison camps, he did his best to move on. But always the Boy's face returned and a gnawing inside that somebody, somewhere was lookin'. Yet it will take a strange twist of fate and a long trip back to where it all began for the Old Man to find healing. - Tad's Story Our hearts joined then. Tied by some invisible force, I couldn't think of anythin' but her. Couldn't we stay there forever? Couldn't it be just us? Openin' my arms, I pulled her up against me and lay my cheek on the top of her head. Her heartbeat pulsed steady against my own. - Beth Sanders was the most beautiful girl Tad had ever seen. Forget they met when she fell in the creek. It was love at first sight. Courtship follows, a beautiful wedding, and the birth of their first child. Yet all is not rosy. Somewhere in the background remains the hatred of one woman and the constant reappearance of jars of strawberry jam.