I couldn’t stop smiling. My husband was coming home. After being deployed forever, he was finally coming home. He had left when I had gotten pregnant and had not even come home to see our baby. That’s the way he is. Nation always comes first. Family comes later. That’s the way I like it too. That’s what attracted me to him. I was hoping it would be a good day for Baby Zac too. That he wouldn’t be cranky today. That he would be the perfect baby, just for today, just for his Dad. I couldn’t stop smiling cause we were going to be a family again.
I was rocking Baby Zac when the doorbell rang. I quickly checked myself in the mirror and made sure I looked good. I was looking a little pale but I hoped he would not notice. My mother-in-law beat me to the door. I guess she is just as excited as I am to have him home. I peeped out, a little shy and a little excited. There he was, looking just as handsome as the day we got married. We smiled at each other, so glad to be together again.
My mother-in-law meanwhile was sobbing at the door. She had just got news of her son’s demise. His body would be coming home soon, to be laid to rest next to his wife and their stillborn son.
Being Nenne 
Ohhh wow, how tragic…………. but I am glad your husband is home, but one question …why did he ring the doorbell? hahaha….couldn’t he just come on in??
He did not ring the doorbell. Someone came home to inform the his mother about his body being flown home. It just happened that his spirit came in then..Ha ha..it would have been funny if the spirit rang the doorbell and then came in..LOL!
Ohhh NOW i get it….I’m so stupid……sorry…….
ha ha..dont be..I guess my story needs a bit more polishing..
Exciting times for you 😉
You did not read the post, did you? Haha! It’s a story, fiction, bout a family that reunites in death.
hahahaha i did! sorry hahaha i didn’t get it right away and commented lol focused too much on th husband coming home
Haahahaha..that’s ok..your comment made me laugh out loud though and so I think the mission has been accomplished…lol
lol i also read a post about a graduation and i didn’t bother reading the disclaimer that it was fiction, i said something about accomplishment and congratulated the writer on graduating lol i can be such a dummy sometimes.
I was confused a bit but reading the post title again, and it was a fiction, right?
Yup. Completely. The story has been written from the point of view of a dead woman and child. Perhaps she died during childbirth..now as a ghost she waits for her husband to join her, which he finally does. A reunion in death.
Ahh, I see.
You had me fooled as well, I read the story but missed the word fiction in the title, a bit of trickery huh 🙂
It was meant to be a little sneaky kind of writing where the crux of the story dawns upon the readers only in the last line. But I think it backfired here a bit cause a lot of people missed the flash fiction bit in the title,,
Great story! I think you nailed the POV and had a fantastic finish!
Thank you! I’m so glad you liked it. Not many actually got the story..:)