LATER

by Michael Foster

     It 's strange, the things you remember. When life has crumbled suddenly, and left you standing there, alone. It s not the big important things that you remember when you come to that: not the plans of the years, not the love nor the hopes you 've worked so hard for. It 's the little things you that you remember then: the little things you hadn 't noticed at the time. The way a hand touched yours, and you too busy to notice; the hopeful little inflection of a voice you didn 't really bother to listen to.

      John Carmody found that out, staring through the living-room window at the cheerful Tuesday-afternoon life of the street. He kept trying to think about the big, important things, lost now —the years and the plans and the hopes. And the love. But he couldn't quite get them focused sharply in his mind just now Not this afternoon.

     They, those important things, were like a huge but nebulous background in his mind.......

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Title: Later
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