I have not participated in Six Sentence Stories at Girlie on the Edge's blog for some time now. Each Sunday she gives a prompt word and then later in the week posts a link to share the stories. This week's prompt word was guide.
The Difference
The sun was setting on the life of Edison Solomon, who had never really achieved the wisdom or ingenuity of either of his namesakes. Solomon, a trust fund baby born in 1941, the same year Walt Disney released Pinocchio, who had never learned to let his conscience be his guide or learn from his mistakes laid in his hospital bed wondering if he had many any difference in his life. The wondering wasn't real, only something to pass his fleeting time away; he knew he had made no difference at all during the first and now final 80 years of his life. Edison knew that the 8 weeks, give or take, he had left on this mortal coil was not nearly enough time to make up for his misspent youth, middle age, and old age. 3 failed marriages had produced no offspring, which was good as 3 failed businesses had produced no sizeable inheritance. He had no time for religion in his life before this point. but when the doctor had asked him if he had wanted to see the chaplain he listened to his inner Jiminy Cricket for the first time in forever and said "sure, why not?".
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