Beauty in Pain Excerpt

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Excerpt

Rick, the resident family comic and warrior didn’t want to come to blows either.  Rick wouldn’t shut up, but for once, he didn’t want to fight.  He just kept saying, “If you want to hit me, just hit me.  I’ll let you have that.”  That was the first recognizable sign that this incident was changing the family.  Rick was growing up. Chuck was trying to hold on to his mother and the adults were crumbling at the seams, as they found out that June was located on the seventh floor. 

June was being taken care of in the Intensive Care Trauma Unit.  As they approached her room, the couple from the lobby was leaving it crying hysterically.  Their faces reflected horror.  Initially, Valerie ignored the disturbing glimpses being displayed on their faces.  She thought, damn, we should have known better.  They know June and we’re acting out in front of them.  Moving forward and remembering the uneasiness she just witnessed Valerie braced for the worst. 

They went in immediately to see June and this person lying before them was not recognizable to Valerie.  Her first honest internal reaction was one of relief.  She thought how do they know it’s her?  Maybe it’s not June, mix ups happen and for a second Valerie was privately joyous.  Admittedly, that was an awful thought to have because if it were not June, it would have been someone else’s sister, mother, daughter or niece.  Valerie would have been ecstatic, in that moment, if it were another person.  After staring at this individual for a while an uncomfortable familiarity began to rise.  Valerie could kind of see it – June’s face.  June’s features were emerging slowly and Valerie’s brief gleam of hope was diminishing.

                                                                                                                         - by Alice V. Benton

                                                                                                                            Beauty in Pain

                                                                                                                            upcoming novel

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