Short Stories That Will Make You Laugh and Cry

'I loved Verity at that moment with an almost unendurable intensity. I groped for fresh poetic words to express my feelings but I plumbed a dry well. All I could manage was I love you. from <i>Verity Remembered</i></p>'Kids never think of dying. They haven't lived long enough. When I was seven I had heard the word death well enough though I had no notion of its meaning. But I learned. That was the year my father died. from <i>A Bad Mistake</i>