The Silence WithinA family bonded together by love is ripped by the Cold and silent swing of death – The death of a husband and father. A new widow is made from the relics of this loss and she sees life from divergent vantage both as both a mother and a custodian of a bereaved household. In a fleet of times, through labour, tears and pains, through many silent nights and troubled days, she sees the unripe hours of old age. She bears the pain like sun- baked Earth with her silence within, a heart of grief and slowly she tries to unleash this silence until she is no more. |
Contents
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CHAPTER THREE | 16 |
CHAPTER FOUR | 23 |
CHAPTER FIVE | 27 |
CHAPTER SIX | 34 |
CHAPTER SEVEN | 40 |
CHAPTER EIGHT | 47 |
CHAPTER THIRTEEN | 85 |
CHAPTER FOURTEEN | 95 |
CHAPTER FIFTEEN | 102 |
CHAPTER SIXTEEN | 107 |
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN | 111 |
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN | 118 |
CHAPTER NINETEEN | 125 |
CHAPTER TWENTY | 133 |
CHAPTER NINE | 56 |
CHAPTER TEN | 61 |
CHAPTER ELEVEN | 67 |
CHAPTER TWELVE | 75 |
CHAPTER TWENTYONE | 136 |
EPILOGUE | 147 |
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