DREAM GIRL

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• Fleeting   A HOLIDAY LIKE NO OTHER

  The end of that term saw Gail coming third place in class. Despite how turbulent the school year had been, she had still somehow managed to make it to the top. She was very proud of herself and her parents could not be any prouder. Gail’s father had returned to work having raised money from his odd jobs. He added that to his savings, and to the one the company had given him and made the initial payments of two thirds the amount and then pledging to pay the rest in installments for over a period of one year and so he got a new truck that was much like his old one. Things returned to normal. Gail went to school using the public transport and was picked up by her father if he could help it. He still brought her books that remained from his distribution at the end of the day; this could be damaged books without covers or with some part torn off which customers had r

• Fleeting   THE SHATTERING

  “Hello am I speaking with Mrs. Mary Owens, Mr. Michael Owens’ wife?” the voice asked. “Yes…This is Mrs. Owens. Who am I speaking with?”. “I’m calling from the town’s police department. Mrs. Owens I’m sorry to inform you that your husband has been involved in an accident. You are needed at Maple Leaf hospital right away. Gail’s mother was in a frenzy. Quickly she took her purse which contained some money and was about to leave when her daughter asked, “Mother won’t you tell me what happened? Why are you leaving in such a hurry? Has anything happened to father?” “Your father has been involved in an accident and is being hospitalized. I’ve been asked to go meet him. Stay back and…” “No! I’m going with you. I can’t let you go alone this night and

• Fleeting   MAKING AN EFFORT

  Gail had made up her mind to work relentlessly to give herself the much needed advantage in life. Just like her father tells her almost always, “You may not have the advantage and privilege now but if you are willing to work hard for it, you will get there”. So it was with a renewed resolve that she prepared for school the next morning, vowing in her heart to be focused and not let “petty” things distract her. So today, which was another Monday morning, dawned bright and clear. She took the public transport to school and arrived quite early. Was that Jon poring over a book? She inched closer…this was nothing short of a miracle, she thought to herself. Jon never was seen with a book, not even with a sheet of paper unless he wanted to copy homework

• Fleeting   THE TROUBLE WITH MAPLE TREE

  The trouble with maple tree is that it brings forth sweetness and so to harvest the sweetness, it has to be sapped taking the sweet syrup and leaving it with less and less sweetness. Gail was a sweet girl, mindful of everyone and doing anything she could to help others. Gail was coming back from her friend’s house after tending to her. It was five o’clock in the evening. She was halfway home when she heard a whisper behind her. She remembered the warnings her parents had given her about not talking to strangers. “Not everyone really needs your help”, her mother had said, “Some come disguised as vulnerable so you can have pity on them and then they turn around do you harm. Don’t answer the calls of strangers. Walk faster and if need be run when the stranger becomes insistent”. Gail seemed to have forgotten all about this in a hurry. She heard the whisper again and turned o

• Fleeting   AT NENE'S

  Today, Gail decided she wanted to be a baker. She had visited Nene earlier today and Nene’s parents were both bakers and owned the local bakery in town where they had workers who together with them baked bread, cakes and other things that were bake- able. Not that she didn’t already know this before she visited today, but that when she got there Nene’s mother had brought out a fairly big cake for her and Nene to munch on. Gail wasn’t used to eating cakes during times when it wasn’t a special occasion. “Do you eat this every day?”, She had asked Nene. “Not every day but almost every day when there are leftovers from the bakery”. “And does this happen all the time?” “No, but almost all the time because we bake a lot of cakes, in fact we bake more cakes than the rest of the bakeries in town put toget

• Fleeting   A KNACK FOR ADVENTURE

  For Gail, school had always been an exciting adventure. For all she could care the subjects could do themselves especially math. She wasn’t doing so well at math and to her it didn’t matter because she did try her best. She remembered getting a zero in an algebra test and crying all the way back home to her father. Her father had consoled her by saying, “Gail, I wasn’t so good at algebra myself. In fact I got so bad in school that I had to drop out to do what I was good at: helping others. I help distribute books to those that need it and in return I get paid for doing what I loved. You know when I was younger, I would sit in class looking out from the window and seeing loads and loads of trucks of books, foodstuff and what have you being distributed from companies to residents. I always wanted to do that. I was fascinated by it so much that my teacher had to take me out from the window se