STORY INFO
The Space Between Lines
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Author
Jesse Glover
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Categories
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Danh mục
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Update
1 year ago
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Part Chapter
1/??
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Reads
71
Content
Every morning for 72 years, Len’s analog alarm clock beeped its staccato rhythm at precisely 5:00 a.m. He’d fold over the covers, careful not to wake Mary next to him, shower and don his suit for the day. Pants, shirt, tie, belt, socks and shoes in exactly that order.He steeped his tea for four minutes. No shorter, no longer. Add just enough honey to round the sharp edge of the bitterness. His toast popped and he cut the crusts off just so before sitting at the table and opening the newspaper, the world's messiness sprea...
Outstanding reviews
Thank you for sharing this beautiful love story. There are some lovely poetic parts - I particularly liked the phrase: « They were married in a church at the top of a hill on a windy day »
This is an absolutely wonderful love story. I had to skim back to the top to understand the part about the wheelchair and then! I saw the reference! - such good writing!! Beautiful prose: Like a punched ticket with a hole in it that he could never replace. The rooms of their home became silent, the barren winter maples lurked like skeletons outside their window, and in each one a face they’d never meet.
Beautiful. 💜🤍❤️💙 Congratulations on the shortlist. 🥲😍
I suspect it happens that way at times in some societies. Congrats.
Beautiful. Congrats on the shortlist.
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