Author: Mitsuko Nagasaki

Fleeing her husband from a forgotten village, she stumbled into a bear trap and thought this was the

The dog wouldn’t let the doctors near the boyrefused to let him be taken to surgery. The boy lay

**Diary Entry**My dog was staring at something under the bed, and I froze when I realized what had caught

**Diary Entry**He left the moment he learned our sons diagnosis. And I stayedI couldnt abandon my child

**Diary Entry**We used to joke that our triplets were so alike, we needed coloured ribbons just to tell

“Go on, say another word, Margaret, about what I owe to whom, and youll be eating through a straw

He leaned over his dying wife and whispered something to her Minutes later, he regretted his words.

“Dad, I’ll eat so littleplease dont send me to the orphanage,” the little girl begged

“You’re just an old woman nowour son needs a young mother, not a grandmother! I’

**A Personal Diary Entry**The blizzard wrapped the quiet village of Oak Hollow in a thick white blanket